TY - JOUR
AU - Neef, Marian
AB - The behavior of individuals, business firms, and government officials canbe viewed as stemming from their implicit desire to maximize perceivedbenefits minus costs, taking into consideration monetary and non-monetary elements and the probability that key events, on which thosebenefits and costs depend, will occur. This perspective emphasizes thatencouraging legally desired behavior requires increasing the benefits anddecreasing the costs of doing the right thing, increasing the costs anddecreasing the benefits of doing the wrong thing, and favorably influenc ing the probabilities of the key contingent events. Such a perspective canbe helpful in generating relevant ideas that might otherwise beoverlooked, thought of less quickly, or thought of in a less organized way.One can also avoid ideas that might not be so relevant in that they do notsubstantially affect relevant benefits and costs. Such a perspective can becontrasted with (1) a regulatory one, which emphasizes government orders, enforcement agencies, and penalties, and (2) a rehabilitative orientation, which emphasizes changing the values of wrongdoers rather thanaltering the situation so that their values motivate them to engage in lawful behavior.
TI - Changing Benefits and Costs to Encourage Lawful and Desired Behavior
JF - Crime & Delinquency
DO - 10.1177/001112878102700205
DA - 1981-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/changing-benefits-and-costs-to-encourage-lawful-and-desired-behavior-PfrRU5Bs0R
SP - 225
EP - 233
VL - 27
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -