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Addressing the Natural Resource Curse : An Illustration from Nigeria
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021
confirmation of this aspect of natural resources. Waste and corruption from oil rather than Dutch disease has been responsible for … distributing the oil revenues to the public. Even with all the difficulties of corruption and inefficiency that will no doubt … could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, transform economics and politics in Nigeria …
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A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2012
In this paper we consider possible links between the advent and diffusion of a number of new psychiatric pharmaceutical therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk factor both for criminal behavior and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116782
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Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City
Corman, Hope - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We examine high-frequency time-series data from 1983 to 2001 for one specific location to examine the impacts of variations in both alcohol consumption and deterrence on seven "index"...
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Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2017
In this article we derive the mix of criminal sanctions—choosing among prison, parole, and probation—that achieves any target level of deterrence at least cost. We assume that prison has higher disutility and higher cost per unit time than parole and probation and that potential offenders...
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Place-Based Interventions at Scale : The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime
Blattman, Christopher - 2017
Cities target police patrols and public services to control crime. What are the direct and spillover effects of such targeted state services? In 2016 the city of Bogotá, Colombia, experimented on an unprecedented scale. They randomly assigned 1,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police...
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Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest Laws
Plumb, Radha - 2010
Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest abusers when a domestic violence incident is...
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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Dyck, I. J. Alexander - 2010
What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one...
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The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment : A Question of Life and Death
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010
The debate over the legitimacy or propriety of the death penalty may be almost as old as the death penalty itself and, in the view of the increasing trend towards its complete abolition, perhaps as outdated. Not surprisingly, and as is generally recognized by contemporary writers on this topic,...
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The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates : Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation
Levitt, Steven D. - 2010
Previous studies of the impact of changes in prisoner populations on crime rates have failed to adequately control for the simultaneity between those two variables. While increases in the number of prisoners are likely to reduce crime, rising crime rates also translate into larger prison...
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Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System
Lochner, Lance - 2009
This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs about the probability of an arrest are positively...
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