The deterrent effect reconsidered: The minimum-time approach

Akiba, Hiroya

doi:10.1016/s1053-5357(05)80005-8

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“…Another study found no deterrent effect of capital punishment on homicide from 1953 to 1987 (Matsumura and Takeuchi, 1990). And two subsequent studies analyzed homicide in Japan from 1960 to 1986 and concluded that the death penalty did have a deterrent effect (Akiba, 1991, 1993). But all of these studies are seriously flawed.…”

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“…But all of these studies are seriously flawed. In Akiba’s studies (1991, 1993), it is unclear how the probability of capital punishment was calculated, and a more robust reanalysis of his data found no deterrent effect (Mori, 2016). Moreover, all of these studies relied on annual crime statistics, not monthly statistics of the kind employed in our study.…”

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The death penalty and homicide deterrence in Japan

Muramatsu

Johnson

Yano

2017

Punishment & Society

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Japanese officials commonly claim that their country retains and uses capital punishment because it deters homicide. Although this claim is contested, few empirical studies have been done to assess the empirical reality. This paper uses data not previously available (monthly homicide statistics obtained from Japan’s National Police Agency) to examine whether Japan’s death penalty deters homicide or robbery-homicide. Using vector autoregression models, it concludes that neither death sentences nor executions deter homicide or robbery-homicide.

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Section: Prior Studies Of the Death Penalty And Deterrence In Japanmentioning

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The death penalty and homicide deterrence in Japan

Muramatsu

Johnson

Yano

2017

Punishment & Society

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“…Another found no deterrent effect of capital punishment on homicide from 1953 to 1987 (Matsumura and Takeuchi, A L C BRIEFING PAPER 11 1990). And two studies examined homicide in Japan from 1960 to 1986 and concluded that the death penalty did have a deterrent effect (Akiba, 1991 and1993), though in these studies it is unclear how the probability of capital punishment was calculated, and a reanalysis of the data found no deterrent effect (Mori, 2016). All of these studies are seriously flawed.…”

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Does the Death Penalty Deter Homicide in Japan?

Johnson¹

2017

ALC Briefing Paper Series

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Unlike the United States, where death penalty and deterrence studies are legion, there has been little research about the death penalty and deterrence in Japan, though the paucity of studies has not discouraged citizens and officials from making confident claims about this issue. Indeed, deterrence has been called “the core of argumentation for and against” the death penalty in Japan. Serious research on this subject has been all but impossible because of difficulties obtaining decent crime data from the Japanese government. This paper uses monthly homicide and robbery-homicide statistics that were previously unavailable to examine whether death sentences and executions in Japan deterred these crimes from 1990 to 2010. The main finding is that the death penalty did not deter homicide or robbery-homicide during this period. More research is needed on this subject, but at present the Japanese government has no sound basis for continuing to claim that the country needs to retain the death penalty because it deters heinous crime.

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Dynamic Economic Models of Optimal Law Enforcement

Feichtinger

1999

Modelling and Decisions in Economics

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The deterrent effect reconsidered: The minimum-time approach

Cited by 3 publications

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The death penalty and homicide deterrence in Japan

The death penalty and homicide deterrence in Japan

Does the Death Penalty Deter Homicide in Japan?

Dynamic Economic Models of Optimal Law Enforcement

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