27 research outputs found
Michigan's Continuing Abolition of the Death Penalty and the Conceptual Components of Symbolic Legislation
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68316/2/10.1177_096466399300200304.pd
The rhetoric of reaction: Perversity, futility, jeopardy, by Albert 0. Hirschman. Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991, 197 pp. Price: $10.95 paper
Making a leadership change: How organizations and leaders can handle leadership transitions successfully, by Thomas N. Gilmore. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1988. 279 pp. Price: $22.95 cloth
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
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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
KINGPINS OR MULES: AN ANALYSIS OF DRUG OFFENDERS INCARCERATED IN FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONS
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