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distinguishes between potential offenders who are "incorrigible," on whom sanctions for criminal behavior have no impact, and those who are "deterrable" and might be deterred by sanctions; he regards the differences between the two as inherently behavioral. This body of work points to the behavioral influences identified in Chapter 3 as among the key building blocks of behavioral economics: limited attention, cognitive barriers, reference dependence, and inaccurate beliefs.
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Some work that has directly addressed criminal behavior itself is discussed in a review of studies that used behavioral economics to examine decision making by offenders. This review describes valuable findings from the last two decades (Pogarsky, Roche, & Pickett, 2018)
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The study required young men to undergo training sessions where they were taught to slow down, think for a moment, and consider a response rather than automatically responding. This type of behavior modification is typical of approaches developed in the context of cognitive psychology, and it is related to the concept of heuristics that behavioral economists use (see Chapter 2)
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. The authors hypothesized that many people simply forgot about the need to appear or did not understand the complicated summons they had received, an example of limited attention and cognition.
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This is another example of reference dependence, where the decision is based in 5Becker (1968) also noted that individuals may respond more to the probability of arrest than to the expected sentence but interpreted this as an indication that individuals prefer risk; in contrast, in behavioral economics this phenomenon is interpreted as present bias.
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. FINDINGS Behavioral factors that are not generally considered in traditional economic models have an influence at all points in the criminal justice system: they influence the determinants of criminal behavior, policing practices, court proceedings, judicial decision making, and the effects of incarceration.
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. Behavioral economics and framing effects in guilty pleas: A defendant decision making experiment.
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. Offender decision-making in criminol ogy: Contributions from behavioral economics.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 177 Wang, L., Sawyer, W., Herring, T., & Widra, E
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