@article{ref1,
title="Putting severity of punishment back in the deterrence package",
journal="Policy studies journal",
year="2001",
author="Mendes, SM and McDonald, Michael D.",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="588-610",
abstract="Studies of criminal deterrence usually show an effect of certainty of punishment but often fail to find an effect of the severity. This is a serious threat to the theoretical underpinnings of deterrence theory, Through both a survey of 39 analyses in 33 published studies and our own reanalysis of an often-used data set, we show the problem rests not with the theory but with the analysis of the theory. Finding no severity effect can be traced to &quot;unbundling the theoretical package&quot; when moving from the theory to the statistical models used to represent the theory.<p />",
language="",
issn="0190-292X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}