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Does Modernization Improve Performance: Evidence from Indian Police
Kumar, Surender; Kumar, Sudesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use … ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization scheme is helping the state police departments in enhancing their … performance, i.e., the police departments which have more modern communication equipments and which are spending more money on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259959
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Deterrence: A Review of the Evidence by a Criminologist for Economists
Nagin, Daniel S. - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 83-105
This article reviews the evidence on the deterrent effect of police, imprisonment, and capital punishment and … additionally summarizes knowledge of sanction risk perceptions. Studies of changes in police presence, whether achieved by changes … in police numbers or in their strategic deployment, consistently find evidence of deterrent effects. Studies of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687001
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How to Obtain a More Accurate Picture of Crime through Crime Statistics: Proposals and Methods
Bug, Mathias; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 3, pp. 13-21
This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185713
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Crime in Colombia: More law enforcement or more justice?
Gómez, Catalina; Velásquez, Hermilson; Rendón, … - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2014
This study considers the effect that judicial and police efficiency exercised on crime in 25 of the 33 political …, especially the National Police, or instead was due to the greater efficiency of the penal system resulting from a structural …. The results indicate an inverse relationship between the number of crimes and the greater efficiency of the police and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123719
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Aufbereitung der Kriminalstatistik zu einem aussagekräftigen Bedrohungsbild: Vorschläge der Berechnung
Bug, Mathias; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 3, pp. 27-35
This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128569
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Regional Crime Rates and Fear of Crime: WISIND Findings
Bug, Mathias; Kroh, Martin; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 12, pp. 167-176
crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207405
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Regionale Kriminalitätsbelastung und Kriminalitätsfurcht: Befunde der WISIND-Studie
Bug, Mathias; Kroh, Martin; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 12, pp. 259-269
crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207412
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Lokale Kriminalitätsberichterstattung: Abbild oder Zerrspiegel von Kriminalität?
Um, Eric van; Huch, Michael; Bug, Mathias - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 12, pp. 288-294
reporting. A comparison of crime reporting with police crime statistics and the WISIND indicator on the fear of crime also shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207414
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Elected vs appointed public law enforcers
LANGLAIS, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2013
This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We …rst consider the case of an elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992370
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Does the Appeals Process Lower the Occurrence of Legal Errors?
Chopard, Bertrand; Marion, Edwige; Roussey, Ludivine - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2014
This paper challenges the commonly held idea that the appeals process lowers the occurrence of legal errors. We show that, even if incorporating the right to bring an appeal in criminal adjudication directly offers the opportunity to correct mistakes made at trial, the …nal impact on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992409