Re-examination of the Criminal Deterrent Effects of Capital Punishment in the United States, 1978-1998
Description
The purpose of this study was to estimate the deterrent
effect of capital punishment by employing a methodology that accounted
for model uncertainty by integrating various studies into a single
coherent analysis. First, this study replicated the results from two
previous studies, Dezhbakhsh, Rubin and Shepherd (2003) and Donohue
and Wolfers (2005), that draw on the same data. Second, the
researchers implemented model averaging methods using standard
frequentist estimators to take a weighted average of the findings
across all possible models that could explain the effect of the
difference in crime rates under alternate laws. Each model's effect
was weighted based on its ability to explain the data. Variables used
in this study included deterrence variables as well as various
demographic and economic control variables.
Resources
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ICPSR20040.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20040.v1 |
Tags
- crime-prevention
- deterrence
- murder
- policy-analysis
- homicide
- capital-punishment