{"id":123,"date":"2012-10-17T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=123"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:13:50","slug":"18-perception-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"18. Perception Is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deterrence07.png\" alt=\"The amount of punishment does not affect deterrence. Nobody knows how much punishment any particular person gets for any given crime. What matters is the perception that some punishment is likely if one is caught.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deterrence07.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deterrence07-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1cc15a140470059883455' value='6a1cc15a140470059883455'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1cc15a140470059883455' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1cc15a140470059883455' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1cc15a140470059883455' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 4: Deterrence\u00a0<br \/>Page 7: Perception is everything<\/p>\n<p><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For both specific and general deterrence, the AMOUNT of punishment matters surprisingly little.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">After all, how many people even KNOW how much time any particular person got for any particular crime?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Apart from criminal lawyers and experienced offenders, almost NOBODY has any idea how much punishment they&#8217;re actually facing\u2014if any.<\/p>\n<p><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What matters most instead is the threat that SOME punishment will be imposed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in other words, it is the PERCEPTION that one is likely to be punished (if caught) that is the deterrent.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1cc15a140470059883455' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,9,6],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-deterrence","tag-punishment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}