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penalties arise only in the presence of secondary motives that value punishment in itself. Other motives that are unrelated to … the size of the punishment will also lead to distortions, but those cannot be corrected by restructuring penalties. The …
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crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …
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's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime …
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's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime …
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In the last decade, models of rational choice have chimed into the discussion on racial profiling, the use of race in stop and search decisions of the police. The models describe the behavior of motorists and the police and provide empirical tests to assess the question whether the police...
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This paper empirically estimates disaggregated crime categories for Sabah from 1968 to 2006. The criminometric analysis … prison or courts related variables. In the long run we find that only robbery is exogenous in all crime model tested however … imply that a substantial portion of the variance of the forecast error of these crime are explained by their explanatory …
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subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative …-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a higher detection probability and higher sanctions. In addition … theories of crime, namely strain theory. …
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This article examined how police- community partnership is visible in Nigeria and solves the problem of crime in … home the menace of crime prevention and detection by focusing on neighborhood groups been the panacea to reducing crime in … police and the community was that the police are seen as belonging to the community in this wise crime will be brought to its …
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This paper explores the advantages of focusing law enforcement on some locations when offenders can choose locations. The substitutability of different crimes from the offender's perspective is established as the key variable determining whether asymmetric enforcement is socially desirable. When...
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