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Crime and violence : desensitization in victims to watching criminal events
Di Tella, Rafael; Freira, Lucía; Gálvez, Ramiro H.; … - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928810
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The effects of leniency on illegal transactions: How (not) to fight corruption
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2001
We study the consequences of 'leniency' - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly designed, leniency may be highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281225
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Leniency policies and illegal transactions
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2005 - First version: October 1999, Final version: September 8, 2005
We study the consequences of leniency - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is known that leniency helps deterring illegal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366558
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Crime and conflicts in Africa : consequences of corruption?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2013
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/10011410031
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Countering global oil theft : responses and solutions
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013165046
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902058
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Crime and Conflicts in Africa : Consequences of Corruption?
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832101
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Global oil theft : impact and policy responses
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816265
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Cash on trial, mk II : economics, technology and institutions
Birchler, Urs W. (ed., introduction);  … - Cash on Trial <Veranstaltung> <2019, Frankfurt am Main>; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112413