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Crime, Punishment, and Myopia [PDF]

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Economic theory predicts that increasing the severity of punishments will deter criminal behavior by raising the expected price of committing crime. This implicit price can be substantially raised by making prison sentences longer, but only if offenders'
David S. Lee, Justin McCrary
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