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We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …
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corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption … corruption, implying, corruption-control offsets crime emanating beyond the corruption mechanism (inter alia, other poor …
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revenue in 2019. Organized oil crime syndicates are often transnational and conduct theft and fraud professionally, exploiting …. The proceeds of oil theft often finance other organized crime, and it triggers violence against the community and in crime-on-crime …
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these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime …
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corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption … corruption, implying, corruption-control offsets crime emanating beyond the corruption mechanism (inter alia, other poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032567
39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...
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lesser forms of crime than human trafficking, the drugs trade, smuggling of weapons, kidnapping, and terrorism. However, oil … theft as an act of opportunity tends to evolve into organized crime and, if left unchecked, oil theft may interlink with … other organized crime activities and groups. Actions against oil theft should target the transnational crime syndicates that …
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This paper empirically investigates the connection between corruption and crime. Such linkage has been often … underestimated because corruption has been often analyzed as a white-collar crime. In fact it is not characterized by violence …. Recently a theoretical connection has been suggested to highlight that corruption and crime can be considered strategic …
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This paper empirically investigates the connection between corruption and crime. Such linkage has been often … underestimated because corruption has been often analyzed as a white-collar crime. In fact it is not characterized by violence …. Recently a theoretical connection has been suggested to highlight that corruption and crime can be considered strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135608
Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity of supermarket customers to steal while using a self-service checkout system. Crucially, this system allows shoppers to engage in dishonest behavior by under-reporting the...
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