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When Does Transparency Backfire? Putting Jeremy Bentham's Theory of General Prevention to the Experimental Test
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies ( IF 2.346 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-04 , DOI: 10.1111/jels.12231
Christoph Engel

Jeremy Bentham brought enlightenment to criminal policy. He argued that the primary purpose of criminal sanctions should be deterring future crime. To that end he advocated complete transparency. This article investigates Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would‐be offenders. Compared with the tone that Jeremy Bentham set, the result is unexpected: when would‐be offenders learn about punishment of others at the individual level, they contribute much less to the public project. This is due to an inevitable side effect. Information about punishment is only meaningful together with information about the infraction.

中文翻译:

透明何时会适得其反?将杰里米·边沁的全面预防理论付诸实验

杰里米·边沁(Jeremy Bentham)为刑事政策带来了启迪。他认为,刑事制裁的主要目的应该是遏制未来的犯罪。为此,他主张完全透明。本文通过操纵有多少其他犯罪者可以获得的有关他人遭受的惩罚的信息,来研究边沁在公共物品实验室实验中的直觉。与杰里米·边沁(Jeremy Bentham)设定的语气相比,结果出乎意料:当犯罪者了解个人层面上对他人的惩罚时,他们对公共项目的贡献要小得多。这是由于不可避免的副作用。关于惩罚的信息仅与违规信息一起才有意义。
更新日期:2019-10-04
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