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deterrent effect meaning, deterrent effect definition | English Cobuild dictionary. deterrent. 1 n-count A deterrent is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do it. They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent...
Our results suggest that capital punishment has a strong deterrent effect; each execution results, on average, in 18. fewer murdersÅ with a margin of error of plus or minus 10. Tests show that results are not driven by tougher. sentencing laws, and are also robust to many alternative specifications.