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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

evidence on punishment preferences, in which subjects reveal a heterogeneous preference for punishing wrongdoers, our model … identifies circumstances in which “punitive” individuals (with stronger-than-average punishment preferences) will self …-select into law enforcement jobs that offer the opportunity to punish (or facilitate the punishment of) wrongdoers. Such “punitive …

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Sentencing Guidelines, Tis Legislation, and Bargaining Power

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; Shepherd, Joanna - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of political and institutional factors on the enactment of sentencing guidelines and truth-in-sentencing legislation by US states. First, we develop a model of strategic interaction among the judiciary, parole boards and state legislators, to analyze the...

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Criminal law and economics

Garoupa, Nuno (contributor); De Geest, Gerrit (contributor) - 2009

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Keeping stigma out of administrative law : an explanation of consistent beliefs

Galbiati, Roberto; Garoupa, Nuno - In: Supreme Court economic review 15 (2007), pp. 273-283

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The scope of punishment : an economic theory of harm-based vs. act-based sanctions

Garoupa, Nuno; Obidzinski, Marie - 2006

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Crime and social norms

Garoupa, Nuno - In: Portuguese economic journal 2 (2003) 3, pp. 131-144

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Crime and Punishment : Further Results

Garoupa, Nuno - 1999

I consider a general specification of criminals' objective function and argue that, when the general non-expected utility theory is substituted for the traditional expected utility theory, the high-fine-low-probability result (Becker, 1968) only holds under specific and strong restrictions

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Crime and punishment re-awakened : insights on a risky business from the worker's perspective

Garoupa, Nuno; Martins, Ana Paula - 2002 - Revised, September 2002

of criminals, and the pattern of their preferences. The methodology used relies on the analysis of the crime …

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Behavior, human capital and the formation of gangs

Dnes, Antony W.; Garoupa, Nuno - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 63 (2010) 4, pp. 517-529

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Wrongful convictions do lower deterrence

Garoupa, Nuno; Rizzolli, Matteo - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 168 (2012) 2, pp. 224-231

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