Michigan's Continuing Abolition of the Death Penalty and the Conceptual Components of Symbolic Legislation

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Does prison pay? : the stormy national debate over the cost-effectiveness of imprisonment. by John Dilulio and Anne Morrison Piehl

tag=1 data=Does prison pay? : the stormy national debate over the cost-effectiveness of imprisonment. by John Dilulio and Anne Morrison Piehl tag=2 data=Dilulio, John J.%Piehl, Anne Morrison tag=3 data=The Brookings Review, tag=4 data=9 tag=5 data=4 tag=6 data=Fall 1991 tag=7 data=28-35. tag=8 data=PRISONS tag=10 data=We cannot currently claim that prison either pays or does not pay at the margin. The evidence is not overwhelming on either side. Provided by MICAH, Canberra. tag=11 data=1992/4/3 tag=12 data=92/0165 tag=13 data=CABWe cannot currently claim that prison either pays or does not pay at the margin. The evidence is not overwhelming on either side. Provided by MICAH, Canberra

American government: Institutions and policies

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Immoral criminals? An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners

This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the importance the two groups attach to pro-social preferences in both in strategic and non-strategic situations. This result also holds when the two groups interact. Data from a large internet experiment, matched with official criminal records, suggest that our main finding from the lab experiment is not in influenced by the additional scrutiny experienced by participants in prison