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Procedural costs in criminal proceedings initiated in connection with criminal offences committed by minors : the impact of reasonable allocation on the economic system of the country

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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015

evidence on punishment preferences, in which subjects reveal a heterogeneous preference for punishing wrongdoers, our model … identifies circumstances in which “punitive” individuals (with stronger-than-average punishment preferences) will self …-select into law enforcement jobs that offer the opportunity to punish (or facilitate the punishment of) wrongdoers. Such “punitive …

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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall

Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020

39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...

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The Importance of Criminal Law

Amirthalingam, Kumaralingam - 2019

The Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore has been deeply involved in the teaching, research and practice of criminal law in Singapore since its early days. Pioneer members of the faculty developed teaching and resource materials which subsequent generations of scholars have built on....

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Cartel behavior and efficient sanctioning by criminal sentences

Wein, Thomas - 2020

Becker's theory of crime, penalties must be at least as high as expected benefits to deter crimes. For example, we start by … multiplying cartel infringement by the reciprocal of the probability of detection and punishment. When we factor in expected … discussed in the literature. By applying the empirically determined probabilities of punishment, we can calculate the minimum …

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The Criminalization of Compliance

Haugh, Todd - 2017

commission of corporate crime—they allow offenders to square their self-perception as “good people” with the illegal behavior … of white collar and corporate crime. The result is that many compliance programs, by mimicking the criminal law in hopes …

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Criminal Law and Religion in Post-Reformation Scotland

Kennedy, Chloe - 2012

This article considers the connection between religious ideology and the criminal law in post-Reformation Scotland. It shows how the influence of religious practice and doctrine rendered the substance and application of the criminal law peculiarly moralistic, and had a similar effect on the...

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Criminalized Compliance

Haugh, Todd - 2021

compliance encourages rationalizations and creates the necessary precursors to the commission of corporate crime. Once this …

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A Criminal Law for Semi-Citizens

Coca Vila, Ivó; Irarrázaval, Cristián - 2021

A significant number of influential philosophical theorists of punishment argue that only those who enjoy the status of … punishment severity. The weaker the bond, the more lenient the punishment should be.Please note: The reference list on the …

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