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Deterrent Penalties

Deterrent Penalties is a penalty provision designed to discourage potential violators of a rule or contract by imposing a cost that exceeds the expected benefit of noncompliance, thereby preventing undesirable behavior through the threat of sanction.

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Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle

William T. Dickens, Lawrence F. Katz, Kevin Lang et al. · Journal of Labor Economics · 1989 · 183 citations · Full text

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Marginal Deterrence in Enforcement of Law

Dilip Mookherjee, Ivan Png · Journal of Political Economy · 1994 · 179 citations

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The Optimal Tradeoff Between the Probability and Magnitude of Fines

Maria Polinsky, Steven Shavell · American Economic Review · 1979 · 168 citations

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Countering catastrophic criminology

Steven Hutchinson · Punishment & Society · 2006 · 125 citations

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The deterrent effect of increasing fixed penalties for traffic offences: The Norwegian experience

Rune Elvik, Peter Christensen · Journal of Safety Research · 2007 · 74 citations

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Authors

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  1. CR
    Charles R. Tittle

    North Carolina State University, United States

    2 publications · 73 citations

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  2. AD
    Avraham D. Tabbach

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  3. JN
    Jacob Nussim

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  4. RB
    Robert B. Voas

    Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation, United States

    1 publications · 29 citations

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  5. TB
    Timm Betz

    Texas A&M University, United States

    1 publications · 50 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  2. Florida Atlantic University

    Boca Raton, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    73 citations

  3. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    53 citations

  4. Bar-Ilan University

    Ramat Gan, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  5. University of Neuchâtel

    Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    104 citations

  6. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

    Madison, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    136 citations

  8. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    52 citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 4 publications · 52 citations

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  2. Review of Law & Economics

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  3. Social Forces

    SF · 2 publications · 73 citations

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  4. Management Science

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  5. ANU Open Research (Australian National University)

    Repository · 1 publications · 15 citations

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