This article analyzes private law enforcement in an environment with corruption. The effect of corruption is studied … divided between welfare-maximizing and rent-seeking groups. Among the central results of the paper are (1) corruption is … article demonstrates the plausibility and relevance of the model by examining corruption and private law enforcement in pre …

This article presents a model of non-monetary sanctions with corruption. It is a well-known result in the law … enforcement literature that in the absence of corruption, non-monetary sanctions, such as imprisonment, should be imposed … infrequently. We show that, in the presence of corruption, it is still sometimes optimal to use non-monetary sanctions. In fact, it …