“Indeed, Katz, Levitt, and Shustorovich have made this point quite directly, arguing that “the execution rate on death row is only twice the death rate from accidents and violence among all American men” and that the death rate on death row is plausibly lower than the death rate of violent criminals not on death row” John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers USES AND ABUSES OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/Donohue%20&%20Wolfers%2058%20Stan1.%20L.%20Rev.%20791.pdf “Furthermore, the execution rate on death row is only twice the death rate from accidents and violence among all American men, and is only slightly greater than the rate of accidental and violent death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34. Among the subsample of individuals engaged in illegal activities, the death rates are likely to be much higher. Levitt and Venkatesh (2000) report a death rate of 7% annually for street-level drug sellers in the gang they analyze. Kennedy, Piehl, and Braga (1996) estimate violent death rates to be 1%±2% annually among all gang members in Boston. With these figures, it is hard to believe that in modern America the fear of execution would be a driving force in a rational criminals calculus.” Lawrence Katz, Steven D. Levitt, and Ellen Shustorovich, Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/files/prison_conditions_capital_punishment_and_deterrence.pdf Kennedy, David, Anne Piehl, and Anthony Braga. 1996. ``Youth Violence in Boston: Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy, 59 Law and Contemporary Problems 147±83. scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol59/iss1/8/ scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4315&context=lcp Levitt, Steven, and Sudhir Venkatesh. 2000. ``An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gangs Finances, 115 Quarterly Journal of Economics 755±89. pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Academics.html pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittVenkateshAnEconomicAnalysis2000.pdf
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