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Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374569
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Twitter and crime: The effect of social movements on gender-based violence
Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta - 2022
link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441518
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Strategic Aspects of Voluntary Disclosure Programs for Corruption Offences: Towards a Design of Good Practice
Nell, Mathias - 2008
Even though high penalties for corruption offences have a deterrent and preventive effect, they also entrap bribe-takers and bribe-givers in their corrupt relationship. Moreover, pending penalties can be misused to make threats against opportunistic behavior and can thus stabilize risky bribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294642
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Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
Kirstein, Roland - 2003
Die Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts umweht in Deutschland immer noch der Hauch des Exotischen. In diesem Beitrag soll begründet werden, warum das ökonomische Entscheidungsmodell ganz hervorragend dazu geeignet ist, die Verhaltensfolgen von Gesetzen zu prognostizieren. Deshalb kann die ÖAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296885
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Wozu Strafrecht? Another View of the Cathedral
Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2002
Der Beitrag befaßt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit dem Strafrecht ein Eigengewicht im staatlichen Sanktionensystem zukommt. Im Kern geht es dabei um die wechselseitige Beziehung zwischen Strafrecht und Zivilrecht, die paradigmatisch durch die Stichworte "Strafe und Schadenersatz" oder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296976
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Strategic aspects of voluntary disclosure programs for corruption offences: Towards a design of good practice
Nell, Mathias - 2007
Even though high penalties for corruption offences have a deterrent and preventive effect, they also entrap bribe-takers and bribe-givers in their corrupt relationship. Moreover, pending penalties can be misused to make threats against opportunistic behavior and can thus stabilize risky bribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307886
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Zur Bestrafung bei Wirtschafts- und Steuerkriminalität: Eine ökonomische Analyse
Follert, Florian - 2019
Vermögens- und Steuerdelikte machen einen beträchtlichen Anteil an kriminellen Handlungen aus und ziehen erhebliche volkswirtschaftliche Schäden nach sich. Zwei der wohl prominentesten Straftäter in diesem Bereich der letzten Jahre waren Thomas Middelhoff und Uli Hoeneß, die beide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433314
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The Crime Effect of Refugees
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - 2022
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … increase in the number of refugees leads to more crime. We estimate that the influx of refugees between 2012 and 2016 generated … crime. We also highlight the pitfalls of employing incorrect empirical procedures and using poor proxies of criminal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351874
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Crime and weather: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Mišák, Vojtěch - 2022
This article estimates the impact of weather on crime in the Czech Republic. Using detailed crime data during the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013394380