| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16476 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16476 |
| Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines | |
| Anne Morrison Piehl; Geoffrey Williams | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-10-14 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A long theoretical literature in economics addresses the heavy reliance of the U.S. criminal justice system on very expensive forms of punishment - prison - when cheaper alternatives - such as fines and other sanctions - are available. This paper analyzes the role of fines as a criminal sanction within the existing institutional structure of criminal justice agencies, modeling heterogeneity in how people respond to various sanctions and threat of sanctions. From research on the application of fines in the U.S., we conclude that fines are economical only in relation to other forms of punishment; for many crimes fines will work well for the majority of offenders but fail miserably for a significant minority; that fines present a number of very significant administrative challenges; and that the political economy of fine imposition and collection is complex. Despite these facts, and with the caveats that jurisdictions vary tremendously and that there are large gaps in our knowledge about them, we build a model showing that it is possible to expand the use of fines as a criminal sanction if institutional structures are developed with these concerns in mind. |
| 主题 | Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16476 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574150 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anne Morrison Piehl,Geoffrey Williams. Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines. 2010. |
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