TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Entorf, Horst
        TI  - Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction
        PY  - 2011/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5670
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5670
        AB  - This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence suggests that public prosecutors and their influence on the probability of conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small and insignificant.
        KW  - panel data
KW  - public prosecutors
KW  - certainty of punishment
KW  - general deterrence
KW  - informal punishment
        ER  -