Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but there is no standard … economic model of police as public agents. We seek to remedy this deficiency by offering an agency model of police behavior. We … plausible assumptions, the public chooses to hire punitive police agents, while submitting them to monitoring by other agents …

crimes against relatively weak victims, who would otherwise be more attractive targets of crime in the absence of the rule …

different groups of potential victims of crime, and assume that a potential offender's benefits from a crime depend on the group …-motivated crime is identical to that from an equivalent non-hate crime. Nonetheless, we derive the result that a pattern of crimes … link members of different groups. We also argue that those groups that are covered by hate crime statutes tend to be those …