Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51636 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5670
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence suggests that public prosecutors and their influence on the probability of conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small and insignificant.
Subjects: 
general deterrence
certainty of punishment
public prosecutors
informal punishment
panel data
JEL: 
K14
K41
C23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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