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endogeneity. The results show that both deterrence and socioeconomic factors are important in explaining crime rates. However …Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and empirical works investigating the … determinants of crime. However, there is a dearth of literature in the context of developing countries. This paper is an attempt to …
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interaction between publicly and privately provisioned crime deterrence efforts. … mitigate their probability of victimization to crime. However, evaluating the effect of such private security measures remains … understudied in the economics of crime literature. Unlike most previous studies, the present analysis considers four separate …
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Despite an abundance of empirical evidence on crime spanning over forty years, there exists no consensus on the impact … of the criminal justice system on crime activity. We argue that this may be due to the combined effect of simultaneity … government areas in Australia and develop a testing framework for the implications of economic theory on crime behaviour. The …
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self-reported crime at age 18 and 21. The effects are robust to various specifications of the age-crime relationship and to …
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Terrorism has emerged as a major threat to the contemporary society. Nation States are reliant on their counter-terrorism laws for checking terrorism and deterring terrorists. To understand the effectiveness of these counter terrorism laws, it is important to first understand the behaviour of...
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Ten years ago, sovereign bond markets almost universally adopted so-called collective action clauses after years of public sector pressure for more efficient procedures to cope with sovereign default and restructuring. A second policy initiative, the standard appointment of a trustee to...
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This paper extends Malik's (1990) analysis to the case where criminals' avoidance efforts and public expenditures in the detection of criminals are strategic complements in the aggregate technology of control of illegal behaviours. In this set up, we show that whenever criminals' avoidance...
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the infringed firms and the ‘Deterrence period’, which follows the ‘Investigation period’ and ends with the final judgment …
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organization tasks, crime realization or detection avoidance activities (i.e. allowing to reduce the probability of detection). In …/beneficiary of the crime, or they are borne by the Agent/perpetrator of the crime), and we analyze the comparative efficiency of the …
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defense policy in the rational framework of deterrence strategy. I chose the evolutionary game theory approach as my research … method. My study yielded the following result: the deterrence is not stable when the aggression level of the defenders is … substantial number of supporters who hoped to restore the deterrence. This study concludes that the Israelis exhibited strong …
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