Deterrence

I am in Michigan today speaking to a large group of judges on criminal deterrence.  It should be a fun talk, judges are good listeners (or at least they are good at pretending to listen) but I did have a dream last night in which hundreds of judges were banging their gavels shouting at me "guilty, guilty, guilty."  Damn conscience.

Coinidentally, some of my work on crime was featured in the latest Economic Scene column in the NYTimes (thanks Virginia!).  Here is my powerpoint presentation for the judges which surveys some of the new literature on crime and deterrence (the notes page in the powerpoint provides some references and calculations).