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Deterrence and Avoidance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
Abstract This paper explores the effects of public enforcement, in general, and punishment, in particular, on crime levels if offenders can engage in avoidance activities. Avoidance reduces the probability or magnitude of punishment. In general, offenders can reduce their expected punishment either by substituting legal activities for criminal ...
Jacob Nussim, Avraham D. Tabbach
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DETERRENCE AND DETERRABILITY*

Criminology, 2010
The first forays into Western criminological theory came in the language of deterrence (Beccaria, 1963 [1764]). The paradigm itself is simple and straightforward, offering an explanation for crime that doubles as a solution (Pratt et al., 2006). Crime occurs when the expected rewards outweigh the anticipated risks, so increasing the risks, at least ...
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Deterrence and Deterrability

Contemporary Security Policy, 2004
(2004). Deterrence and Deterrability. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 25, DETERRENCE AND THE NEW GLOBAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT, pp. 11-17.
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Entry Deterrence in the Commons

International Economic Review, 1994
Summary: We analyze a common property resource model with a single incumbent firm that faces future potential entry of a rival. The cost of harvest from the resource is a function of the stock size. By drawing down current stock sufficiently, which lowers future stock, the incumbent can make entry unprofitable. We analyze the conditions under which the
Polasky, Stephen, Manson, Charles
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Brown on Deterrence

Science, 1977
Some insight into Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's views on deterrence may be gained from the following excerpts from an address titled "Strategic Force Structure and Strategic Arms Limitations" he delivered at the Institute of U.S. Studies of the Soviet Academy of Science in Moscow in March 1975.
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The Concept of Deterrence and Deterrence Theory

2017
Deterrence is an old practice, readily defined and described, widely employed but unevenly effective and of questionable reliability. Elevated to prominence after World War II and the arrival of nuclear weapons, deterrence became the central recourse for sustaining international and internal security and stability among and within states in an era of ...
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Deterrence and Defence

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1981
The concepts of defense and deterrence each have their own logic, but military doctrines combining the two lead to self-contradiction and erode the credibility of each.
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EXECUTIONS AS A DETERRENT TO HOMICIDE

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1979
For the period 1977–1992, the number of homicides in a state tended to decrease more often after a year of no executions than after a year with one or more executions, the opposite of a deterrent effect.
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