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Fighting Mobile Crime
Crinò, Rosario - 2019
Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back....
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Punishment : and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is … unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible … alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior. These …
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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023
There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...
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The Null Result Penalty
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022
We examine how the evaluation of research studies in economics depends on whether a study yielded a null result. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with significant results, even when holding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082791
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Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2021
Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …
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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
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The economics of terrorism and counter-terrorism: A survey (Part II)
Schneider, Friedrich G.; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276717
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The economics of terrorism and counter-terrorism: A survey (Part I)
Schneider, Friedrich G.; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276718
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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA’s...
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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty: Facts or ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011
In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...
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