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The considerable increase of actions rated as offences was the support for passing court decisions of punishing the people who committed such actions
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agreement is reached. A VA can result in higher abatement and net social benefits than regulation if the probability of private …
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ante regulation (e.g., Pigouvian taxes) and ex post punishment of avoidance. The main results of this paper are that (1) ex … complements. As the control of avoidance through regulation or punishment can be designed into the legal system, the results of …Efforts to avoid punishment are socially wasteful. Not only do they limit the deterrent effect of punishment, but they …
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Criminal law is perhaps society’s strongest technique of formal censure. By labelling an activity as “criminal” we attach to it a special stigma. Despite this, the United Kingdom (UK) has a long history of criminalising conduct that lacks the seriousness we might expect that label to...
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