TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tauchen,Helen
AU  - Witte,Ann Dryden
AU  - Griesinger,Harriet
TI  - Criminal Deterrence:  Revisiting the Issue with a Birth Cohort
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4277
PY  - 1995
Y2  - March 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4277
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4277.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ann Dryden Witte
500 SE Mizner Blvd., # A904
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Tel: 561 361 4398
E-Mail: awitte@wellesley.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1993-11-01
AB  - In this paper, we estimate the general deterrent effect of criminal justice resources on criminal behavior. Our panel data, which combine individual-level information on arrests and personal characteristics with aggregate measures of criminal justice resources, allow us to obtain deterrence measures that more closely reflect theoretical concepts and are of potential policy relevance. We find robust evidence of a general deterrent effect in our estimates of error components probit and Tobit models.
ER  -