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Causal effects of mental health treatment on education outcomes for youth in the justice system
Cuellar, Alison Evans; Dave, Dhaval - 2016
under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls … for observed family- and youth-specific heterogeneity. In addition, the treatment assignment rules create discontinuous … thresholds among youth who are deemed eligible or not eligible for treatment, rules which the study exploits empirically to …
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Causal effects of mental health treatment on education outcomes for youth in the justice system
Cuellar, Alison Evans; Dave, Dhaval - In: Economics of education review 54 (2016), pp. 321-339
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The Feminist War on Crime
Gruber, Aya - 2007
influence of the powerful victims' rights movement. This movement originated as a conservative counter to Warren Court civil … unmoor crime from its social roots. The Article argues that in recent times, victims' rights reformers and the government …
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The Criminalization of Compliance
Haugh, Todd - 2017
Corporate compliance is becoming increasingly “criminalized.” What began as a means of industry self-regulation has morphed into a multi-billion dollar effort to avoid government intervention in business, specifically criminal and quasi-criminal investigations and prosecutions. In order to...
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Economic Analysis of Criminal Procedure
Hylton, Keith N. - 2014
This essay reviews the economics of criminal procedure, proceeding through four topics in the literature. First, I review the implications of substantive criminal law theories for criminal procedure. The second part discusses the error cost model of criminal procedure, which is the dominant...
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Criminal Penalties for Contraventions of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act
Clarke, Julie N. - 2015
In 2003 the Dawson Committee, commissioned by the Australian Government, recommended that criminal penalties should be introduced for cartel conduct. The Government accepted this recommendation in principle and set up a working party to consider the implementation difficulties that had been...
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A Lawyer's Obligations to Avoid Assisting in a Crime or Fraud
Joy, Peter A.; McMunigal, Kevin C. - 2021
The American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently issued an advisory ethics opinion in which it found that a lawyer has an ethical duty to investigate when a client or prospective client tries to retain a lawyer for a matter that could be...
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Cartels as Rational Business Strategy : Crime Pays
Connor, John M.; Lande, Robert H. - 2013
This article is the first to analyze whether cartel sanctions are optimal. The conventional wisdom is that the current level of sanctions is adequate or excessive. The article demonstrates, however, that the combined level of current United States cartel sanctions is only 9% to 21% as large as...
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Political Economy of Criminal Procedure
Hylton, Keith N.; Khanna, Vikramaditya S. - 2008
This chapter presents a public choice theory of criminal procedure. The core idea is that criminal procedure is best understood as a set of rules designed to thwart attempts to use the state's law enforcement power in a predatory fashion or in order to transfer wealth generally. For the most...
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Precursor Crimes of Terrorism : The Criminalisation of Terrorism Risk in Comparative Perspective - Introduction to Precursor Crimes of Terrorism
Walker, Clive; Llobet Anglí, Mariona; Cancio Meliá, Manuel - 2022
the threat challenges it poses posed to human rights and social and economic development. Featuring contributions from …
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