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Saving Toby : Extortion, Blackmail, and the Right to Destroy
Sachs, Stephen E. - 2014
On the website SaveToby.com, one may find many endearing pictures of Toby, the cutest little bunny on the planet. Unfortunately, on June 30, 2005, the lovable Toby was scheduled to be butchered and eaten - unless the website's readers sent $50,000 to save his life.Though Toby's owner has since...
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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall
Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020
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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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption
Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019
these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime …
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Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector
Buscaglia, Edgardo A. - 2006
Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil … society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of … corruption in the public sector in a large number of countries. The two types of complex crime reinforce each other. To identify …
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Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law
Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016
introducing policies that bundle amnesties for low-rank criminals with amnesties to corrupt officials who plea guilty. In fact …-rank ones. This domino effect can deter crime more than a policy based only on amnesties to low-rank criminals would: a bright …
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
In major legal orders such as UK, the U.S., Germany, and France, bribers and recipients face equally severe criminal sanctions. In contrast, countries like China, Russia, and Japan treat the briber more mildly. Given these differences between symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for...
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An Agency Cost Approach to Public Sector Corruption
McKoy, Derrick V. - 2007
There is an identifiable and distinct body of law and administrative regulations on state enterprise governance, anticorruption and public sector ethics emerging in the Commonwealth Caribbean. The law and administrative structures are still developing but they are sufficiently well developed to...
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Providing for Victim Redress within the Legislative Scheme for Tackling Foreign Corruption
Harrington, Joanna - 2020
. Accountability for the commission of complex economic crime by corporations, as distinct from individual defendants, is often secured … prosecutorial authorities to ensure that the interests of the overseas victims of bribery, corruption and economic crime are taken …
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Leniency Program in the Anti-Corruption Law
Lara, Fabiano Teodoro - 2018
The paper examines the leniency program in the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law, from acomparative and empirical perspective. Leniency programs, understood as a set of standardsthat allow offenders to avoid or reduce the punishments they would receive in exchange forconfession and collaboration...
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