Glossary / Lexicon
Certainty
Certainty according to Beccaria, a punishment must be certain to follow from the crime in order to be an effective deterrent.
The greater the extent to which a would-be offender thinks that he can get away with a crime, the less he will weigh the punishment into his deliberation of whether or not to commit the crime.
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