deterrence of crime (due to the greater likelihood of apprehension), and the savings in social harm as some offenders are … predisposition to commit a crime. …

Economic models of crime and punishment implicitly assume that the government can credibly commit to the fines … several of the standard predictions of the economic model of crime and punishment are robust to commitment, but that … credibility may in some cases result in lower apprehension rates, and hence a higher crime rate, compared to the static version of …

interpreted this to require that police obtain a warrant prior to search and that illegally seized evidence be excluded from trial …. A consensus has developed in the law and economics literature that tort liability for police officers would be a …-seeking police, and develop a game-theoretic model to compare the two remedies when some police officers (“bad” types) are willing to …

factors related both to the cost of law enforcement and to the crime commission decision. On the enforcement side, illegality …