Getting off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment*

By H. Mocan, R. Gittings. Journal law and economy, 2003

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Why Have Child Maltreatment and Child Victimization Declined (2006, background): “Some researchers have presented arguments in favor of the deterrent effects of capital punishment, while others have disputed such effects (Cameron, 1994; Dezhbakhsh, Rubin, & Shepherd, 2002; Ehrlich, 1975, 1977; Mocan & Gittings, 2003 ).”
Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature (2017, background): “This literature has generated mixed findings with several prominent papers (e.g., Dezhbakhsh, Rubin, and Shepherd 2003; Mocan and Gittings 2003; Zimmerman 2004, 2006; and Dezhbakhsh and Shepherd 2006) finding large and significant deterrence effects, and several equally prominent papers (Katz,…”
An empirical study of the European corporate leniency program (2009, background): “…between individuals, it 5The deterrence effect of fines and capital punishment (ignoring any immunity caused by selfreporting) was, for example, investigated by Bar-Ilan and Sacerdote (2004) and Mocan and Gittings (2003). is not surprising that collusion is less likely to be sustainable.”
Do Data Breaches Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft? (2010, background): “Many criminologists have studied deterrence effects of law, in general (Clonginger 1975; Blumstein et al, 1978; Levitt 1995; Nagin 1998; Robinson, Darley and John, 2003) and others have focused specifically on the deterrent effects of gun laws and crime (Lott and Mustard 1997; Black and Nagin 1996, ”