On prison and therapy

Volker Meier

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the choice of punishment levels where therapy and pure imprisonment are the two types of treatment. The incidence of a repeat offense depends on the offender’s criminal energy in a stochastic fashion. Therapy increases the depreciation rate of criminal energy. A combination of the two treatment types is never chosen since they constitute strong substitutes.

Date: 2001
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Published in European Journal of Law and Economics 1 12(2001): pp. 47-56

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