INTEGRATING CELERITY, IMPULSIVITY, AND EXTRALEGAL SANCTION THREATS INTO A MODEL OF GENERAL DETERRENCE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE*

2001/11/01 by DANIEL S. NAGIN, Daniel S. Nagin, GREG POGARSKY +1 · 19 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00943.x

Abstract

We propose a model that integrates the extralegal consequences from conviction and impulsivity into the traditional deterrence framework. The model was tested with 252 college students, who completed a survey concerning drinking and driving. Key findings include the following: (1) Although variation in sanction certainty and severity predicted offending, variation in celerity did not; (2) the extralegal consequences from conviction appear to be at least as great a deterrent as the legal consequences; (3) the influence of sanction severity diminished with an individual's “present‐orientation”; and (4) the certainty of punishment was far more robust a deterrent to offending than was the severity of punishment.

Cited by

• THE PHILADELPHIA FOOT PATROL EXPERIMENT: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF POLICE PATROL EFFECTIVENESS IN VIOLENT CRIME HOTSPOTS*
• FRIENDS WITH MY FUTURE SELF: LONGITUDINAL VIVIDNESS INTERVENTION REDUCES DELINQUENCY
• The law isn't everything: The impact of legal and non-legal sanctions on motorists' drink driving behaviors
• Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature
• Studying the reach of deterrence: Can deterrence theory help explain police misconduct?
• Situational support and information security behavioural intention: a comparative study using conservation of resources theory
• Labeling and the Differential Impact of School Discipline on Negative Life Outcomes: Assessing Ethno-Racial Variation in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes
• A review and analysis of deterrence theory in the IS security literature: making sense of the disparate findings
• Motivating Information Security Policy Compliance: Insights from Perceived Organizational Formalization
• The effects of moral disengagement and organizational ethical climate on insiders’ information security policy violation behavior
• Organized crime [wikipedia]
• Evaluating the drivers of and obstacles to the willingness to use cognitive enhancement drugs: the influence of drug characteristics, social environment, and personal characteristics. [europepmc]
• Correlated impulses: Using Facebook interests to improve predictions of crime rates in urban areas. [europepmc]
• Applying the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Resolution to Juvenile Probation Reform. [europepmc]
• Assessing the Factors Associated With the Detection of Juvenile Hacking Behaviors. [europepmc]
• Efficient Institutions and Effective Deterrence: On Timing and Uncertainty of Formal Sanctions. [europepmc]
• Internal and external drivers for compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures in Slovenia: The view from general deterrence and protection motivation. [europepmc]
• Aging Out of Crime and Personality Development: A Review of the Research Examining the Role of Impulsiveness on Offending in Middle and Late Adulthood. [europepmc]

Related

• Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance: A Theory of the Criminal Sanction
• School Discipline as a Turning Point
• The Optimal Deterrence of Crime: A Focus on the Time Preference of DWI\n Offenders
• Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy
• Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature