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Black sheep or scapegoats? : implementable monitoring policies under unobservable levels of misbehavior

Buechel, Berno; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2014

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...

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Optimal law enforcement with sophisticated and naive offenders

Buechel, Berno; Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2018

Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...

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The Dark Side of Economic Globalisation : Politics, Organised Crime and Corruption in the Pacific

Walton, Grant - 2016

While organised crime comes in a variety of guises, in this paper we argue that organised crime in the Pacific can be best framed as a nexus between political elites and seemingly licit actors. We argue that three changes over the past two decades have made it increasingly likely that the...

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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption

Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019

reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on … these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime … societies feature high levels of corruption and criminal activity. Surprisingly, our results allow for the interpretation that …

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Contagious Dishonesty : Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft

Gulino, Giorgio; Masera, Federico - 2022

Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity … shoppers, we show that the probability of stealing increases by 16% after a local corruption scandal breaks. This effect is not …

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Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law

Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016

, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …

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Can Enforcement Backfire? Crime Displacement in the Context of Customs Reform in the Philippines

Yang, Dean - 2014

Increased enforcement can lead crime to be displaced to alternative lawbreaking methods. In theory, crime displacement should respond positively to the size of profits threatened by enforcement. If enforcement displaces crime towards lawbreaking methods with lower variable costs, the overall...

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Neutralizing the tentacles of organized crime : assessment of an anti-crime measure in fighting mafia violence

Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo; Stimolo, Marco - 2022

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, anti-corruption measures might also induce criminal …

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Neutralizing the tentacles of organized crime : assessment of the impact of an anti-crime measure on mafia violence in Italy

Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo; Stimolo, Marco - 2023

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to …

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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