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known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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juvenile crime increases when the age of criminal majority is increased. As predicted by dynamic models of crime, these effects … are driven by age groups well below the age of criminal majority. Further, the increase is driven by crime categories that … paper focuses on crime as a dynamic process, and shows that offenders can respond in anticipation of increases in criminal …
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whether that system actually takes corporate crime seriously. Corporate prosecutions, convictions, and punishment continue to …
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We estimate the causal effect of harsher speeding punishments on future driving behavior of cited drivers. To account for the fact that punishments are not randomly assigned, we leverage variation in ticket-writing practices across highway patrol officers in Florida. The fine associated with a...
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The public finance literature tells us that user fees will introduce market-like efficiency to public good provision. Meanwhile, criminal justice scholars note that criminal justice fees have run amok, causing crippling debt, undermining reentry efforts, and raising civil rights and...
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retributive and distributive justice in criminal law theory. Likewise, there is considerable discussion of the relation between … corrective and distributive justice in private law theory. However, there is comparatively little discussion of the relation … between retributive justice and corrective justice, whether in criminal law theory, private law theory, or legal theory …
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