Subsequently, he taught at Columbia and City College of New York before joining Fortune magazine in 1953 where he remained until the early 1970s.
[2] Silberman used econometric methods to measure the effectiveness in terms of criminal deterrence of two factors: the degree of punishment; and the probability of apprehension.
A simple "expected loss" model would predict that deterrent effect would depend only on the result of multiplying the penalty by the probability of it occurring.
Silberman concluded that contrary to this model, the likelihood of punishment had a greater effect in most situations.
[3] He was also the author of Crisis in Black and White and A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today.