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I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb : The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws

Iyengar, Radha - 2008

Strong sentences are common "tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in criminal activity. However, the design of such policies often ignores other margins along which individuals interested in participating in crime may adjust. I use California's Three...

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Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law

Shavell, Steven - 2003

enforcement are discussed in the chapters that follow. In chapter 20, the basic theory of public enforcement employing monetary … sanctions is discussed; in chapter 21, the basic theory of enforcement using nonmonetary sanctions is examined; and in chapter … 22, extensions to the basic theory are considered. Then, in chapter 23, functions of sanctions apart from deterrence …

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A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity

Mocan, H. Naci - 2000

This paper presents a new, dynamic economic model of criminal activity. Individuals are endowed with legal and criminal human capital. Potential incomes in legal and criminal sectors depend on the level of the relevant human capital, the rate of return, and random shocks. Both types of human...

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The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1982

This paper examines the use of fines and imprisonment to deter individuals from engaging in harmful activities. These sanctions are analyzed separately as well as together, first for identical risk-neutral individuals and then for two groups of risk-neutral individuals who differ by wealth. When...

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Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime : An Application of the "Market for Offenses Model"

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010

The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to...

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Education, Work, and Crime : A Human Capital Approach

Lochner, Lance - 2004

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration. Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline...

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A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation

Gan, Li - 2004

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate...

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Optimal Drug Policy in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Chang, Sheng-Wen - 2002

Part of the debate over the control of drug activity in cities is concerned with the effectiveness of implementing demand- versus supply-side drug policies. This paper is motivated by the relative lack of research providing formal economic underpinning for the implementation of either policy. We...

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Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1999

This article analyzes corruption of law enforcement agents: payment of bribes to agents so that they will not report violations. Corruption dilutes deterrence because bribe payments are less than sanctions. The state may not be able to offset this effect of bribery by raising sanctions for the...

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Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation

Kessler, Daniel - 1998

It is typically difficult to differentiate empirically between deterrence and incapacitation since both are a function of expected punishment. In this paper we demonstrate that the introduction of sentence enhancements (i.e. increased punishments that are added on to prison sentences that would...

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