The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence from a “Judicial Experiment”.
We use panel data for 50 states during the 1960-2000 period to examine the deterrent effect of capital punishment, using the moratorium as a judicial experiment.” We compare murder rates immediately before and after changes in states' death penalty laws, drawing on cross-state variations in the timi...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 512 - 536 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 2006
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