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Penalty Severity

Penalty Severity is a quantitative metric within penalty design that measures the magnitude or harshness of sanctions imposed for non-compliance, distinguishing itself from related constructs by its focus on the intensity of punitive consequences relative to the offense.

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89

Authors

48

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

8

Variants

Sanction Severity

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Publications

59

Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century

Daniel S. Nagin · Crime and Justice · 2013 · 733 citations

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Reasonable Doubt and the Optimal Magnitude of Fines: Should the Penalty Fit the Crime?

James Andreoni · The RAND Journal of Economics · 1991 · 278 citations

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Reactions to penalties for an offense in relation to authoritarianism, values, perceived responsibility, perceived seriousness, and deservingness.

N. T. Feather · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1996 · 134 citations

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Contrast effects in judgments of crime severity and the punishment of criminal violators.

Albert Pepitone, Mark J. DiNubile · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1976 · 134 citations

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Perceptions of Punishment: Inmates and Staff Rank the Severity of Prison Versus Intermediate Sanctions

Joan Petersilia, Elizabeth Piper Deschenes · The Prison Journal · 1994 · 132 citations

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Authors

89

  1. JM
    John M. Darley

    Princeton University, United States

    3 publications · 151 citations

    3

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  2. NT
    N. T. Feather

    Flinders University, Australia

    2 publications · 258 citations

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  3. MJ
    Mark J. DiNubile

    Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States), United States

    2 publications · 158 citations

    2

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  4. LS
    Leslie Sebba

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    2 publications · 72 citations

    2

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  5. GP
    Geoffrey P. Alpert

    University of South Carolina, United States

    2 publications · 76 citations

    2

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Institutions

48

  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    302 citations

  2. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    84 citations

  3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    108 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    158 citations

  5. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    58 citations

  6. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    336 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  8. Université de Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    56 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    6 publications · 461 citations

    6

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  2. Crime and Justice

    CRIMEJ · 3 publications · 821 citations

    3

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  3. Law and Human Behavior

    3 publications · 157 citations

    3

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  4. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

    2 publications · 163 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. Journal of Quantitative Criminology

    2 publications · 64 citations

    2

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