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Immoral criminals? An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners

Birkeland, Sigbjørn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil
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2011-09
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Abstract
This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing

the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior

of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a

striking similarity in the importance the two groups attach to pro-social

preferences in both in strategic and non-strategic situations. This result

also holds when the two groups interact. Data from a large internet experiment,

matched with official criminal records, suggest that our main finding

from the lab experiment is not in

influenced by the additional scrutiny experienced

by participants in prison.
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Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics
Series
Discussion Papers;15/2011

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