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...

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Publicado en:Economic Inquiry Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 512 - 536
Autores principales: Dezhbakhsh, Hashem, Shepherd, Joanna M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell July 2006
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