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| Title: | | Should the standard of evidence be lowered to reduce crime?  |
| Authors: | | Ognedal, Tone |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo 2001,32 |
| Abstract: | | As crime becomes increasingly widespread it may be optimal not to lower but to increase the standard of evidence. Even though a higher standard of evidence results in a lower expected penalty for all levels of crime, it increases the expected penalty for high levels of crime relative to the expected penalty for lower levels of crime. Consequently, a high standard of evidence is more effective in deterring high levels of crime. As the proportion of agents with a low opportunity cost of committing crime increases, the standard of evidence should be increased. |
| Subjects: | | standard of evidence crime economic crime |
| JEL: | | G34 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
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