In Victoria and New South Wales, young learner drivers have been required to have 120 hours supervised driving before taking their provisional license test since July 2007. Queenslanders under 25 have to show that they have completed 100 supervised hours. Most other states require at least 50...

Protocol 36 to the Lisbon Treaty gives the UK the right to opt out en bloc of all the police and criminal justice measures adopted under the Treaty of Maastricht ahead of the date when the Court of Justice of the EU at Luxembourg will acquire jurisdiction in relation to them. The government is...

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...

The legal and economic analysis presented here empirically tests the theoretical framework advanced by Buscaglia (1997) and by Kugler, Verdier, and Zenou (2003). This paper goes beyond the prior literature by focusing on the empirical assessment of the actual implementation of the institutional...

The legal and economic analysis presented here empirically tests the theoretical framework advanced by Buscaglia (1997) and by Kugler, Verdier, and Zenou (2003). This paper goes beyond the prior literature by focusing on the empirical assessment of the actual implementation of the institutional...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (i.e. drones) are quickly being adopted by many countries, corporations, international organizations, police and immigration forces and by the general population. Consider that you can now buy a drone to fly, spy and record for as little as US$300. Although public...

In recent years the term “wage theft” has been widely used to describe the phenomenon of employers not paying their workers the wages they are owed. While the term has great normative weight, it is rarely accompanied by calls for employers literally to be prosecuted under the criminal law....

This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime. It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on what behavioral genetics can and cannot tell us about criminal behavior. It...

Economists and Criminologists have very different models of human behavior. A total of 74 out of all 130 academics who published peer-reviewed empirical research on gun issues in criminology and economics journals responded to our survey. That was a 57% response rate. Looking at their views on...