compliance encourages rationalizations and creates the necessary precursors to the commission of corporate crime. Once this …

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …

This paper argues that the "Economics of Crime" concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several … to a large extent law abiding, they are more motivated to observe the law. -- crime ; punishment ; incentives …