INTEGRATING CELERITY, IMPULSIVITY, AND EXTRALEGAL SANCTION THREATS INTO A MODEL OF GENERAL DETERRENCE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE * | Zendy

NAGIN DANIEL S. | Zendy; POGARSKY GREG | Zendy

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INTEGRATING CELERITY, IMPULSIVITY, AND EXTRALEGAL SANCTION THREATS INTO A MODEL OF GENERAL DETERRENCE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE *

Author(s) -

NAGIN DANIEL S.,

POGARSKY GREG

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

criminology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467

H-Index - 139

eISSN - 1745-9125

pISSN - 0011-1384

DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00943.x

Subject(s) - punishment (psychology) , conviction , impulsivity , deterrence (psychology) , certainty , psychology , criminology , social psychology , variation (astronomy) , developmental psychology , political science , law , philosophy , physics , epistemology , astrophysics

We propose a model that integrates the extralegal consequences from conviction and impulsivity into the traditional deterrence framework. The model was tested with 252 college students, who completed a survey concerning drinking and driving. Key findings include the following: (1) Although variation in sanction certainty and severity predicted offending, variation in celerity did not; (2) the extralegal consequences from conviction appear to be at least as great a deterrent as the legal consequences; (3) the influence of sanction severity diminished with an individual's “present‐orientation”; and (4) the certainty of punishment was far more robust a deterrent to offending than was the severity of punishment.

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