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Assessment of Social Damage from Crime and Proportionality of Punishment to Damage: Legal Economics Approach

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  • Grigory V. Kalyagin

    (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

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The article considers the principle of proportionality of the severity of punishment to public damage from an offense in terms of law and economics and criminology. It presents an overview of various criminological approaches to assessing social damage from different types of crimes, concluding that it is not possible to measure this damage precisely in each specific case. The methodology proposed by Sellin and Wolfgang (Sellin & Wolfgang 1964), which rates the severity of crimes based on sociological surveys, is highlighted as an effective basis for determining the severity of punishment proportional to public damage, though it has its drawbacks. The conclusion offers proposals for synthesizing all the approaches considered in the article to assess public damage from crime and establish the socially optimal severity of punishment for offenses.

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  • Grigory V. Kalyagin, 2024. "Assessment of Social Damage from Crime and Proportionality of Punishment to Damage: Legal Economics Approach," Population and Economics, ARPHA Platform, vol. 8(2), pages 56-81, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:arh:jpopec:v:8:y:2024:i:2:p:56-81
    DOI: 10.3897/popecon.8.e103894
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    Keywords

    crime severity of punishment social damage principle of proportionality damage assessment;

    JEL classification:

    • K14 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Criminal Law
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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