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Modern Day Slavery: What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?
Hernandez, Diego; Rudolph, Alexandra - 2011
At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address...
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Liberal coercion? Prostitution, human trafficking and policy
Cho, Seo-young - 2013
Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with better protection policy for trafficking victims and...
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Human trafficking: Germany only average when it comes to protecting victims
Cho, Seo-Young - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 11, pp. 3-9
According to the United Nations, over 2.45 million people are victims of human trafficking, and the number of unrecorded cases is also believed to be significant. Therefore, many countries have increased their efforts to combat trafficking and to protect the victims. DIW Berlin recently updated...
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Menschenhandel: Deutschland beim Opferschutz nur Mittelmaß
Cho, Seo-Young - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 39, pp. 3-12
legal systems and committed to criminal justice (prosecution policy). Preventive efforts against the crime (prevention …
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Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime
Cunningham, A. Scott; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, … - 2011
, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. …
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Competitive pressure and corporate crime
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2013
lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model à la Becker … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased …
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Selfishness as a potential cause of crime: A prison experiment
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - 2013
For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …
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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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Gefährliche Nachbarschaft? Welches Bild von Kriminalität die deutsche lokale und regionale Tagespresse zeichnet: Ergebnisse einer standardisierten Inhaltsanalyse
Ihle, Holger; Bernhard, Uli; Dohle, Marco - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 2, pp. 27-44
Generally, crime cannot be perceived directly, but rather only indirectly through media coverage. In terms of the … how local and regional German newspapers report crime. To answer this question, a standardised content analysis of 31 … newspapers was conducted. The findings show that newspaper articles about crime take up a small, yet clearly perceivable space …
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