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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice
Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83
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Optimizing criminal behavior and the disutility of prison
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017
We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...
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Bargaining behind bars : peer and strategic interactions in theory and data
Chen, Melvin Keith - 2003
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Three essays on applied economics
Katayama, Hajime - 2003
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How real is the threat of imprisonment for environmental crime?
Billiet, Carole M.; Rousseau, Sandra - In: European journal of law and economics 37 (2014) 2, pp. 183-198
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The deterrence effect of prison : dynamic theory and evidence
Lee, David S.; McCrary, Justin - 2009
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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
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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The deterrence effect of prison : dynamic theory and evidence
Lee, David S.; McCrary, Justin - 2009
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Crime and correction
1958
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