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| Title: | | Crime, prosecutors, and the certainty of conviction  |
| Authors: | | Entorf, Horst |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5670 |
| 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 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201105173059 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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