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Twitter and crime : the effect of social movements on gender-based violence
Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta - 2022
link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …
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Criminal Labor Law
Levin, Benjamin - 2021
This Article examines a recent rise in suits brought against unions under criminal statutes. By looking at the long history of criminal regulation of labor, the Article argues that these suits represent an attack on the theoretical underpinnings of post-New Deal U.S. labor law and an attempt to...
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Cartel behavior and efficient sanctioning by criminal sentences
Wein, Thomas - 2020
Becker's theory of crime, penalties must be at least as high as expected benefits to deter crimes. For example, we start by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253812
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Neoliberalism, Crime and Criminal Justice
O'Malley, Pat - 2016
. Neoliberalism's place ranges from the core of neo-Marxist visions of a systematic global crime control program, through its place as … ‘neoliberal' regimes' stances on crime control. There are often tenuous and very variable connections made between neoliberal … politics and crime policies. The necessary interplay of neoliberalism with other factors (other political rationalities …
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Outsourcing Criminal Prosecution? : The Limits of Criminal Justice Privatization
Fairfax, Roger - 2011
the United States. This Article, prepared for the University of Chicago Legal Forum Symposium on Crime, Criminal Law, and …
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An Economic Analysis of the Criminal Law as a Preference-Shaping Policy
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn - 2005
from tort law. My analysis suggests that society will make an activity a crime whenever the social benefits of changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065254
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Terror and Tenderness in Criminal Law
Hanan, Eve - 2023
The criminal legal system is at a crossroads. Calls for abolition are met with calls for modest adjustments or maintenance of the status quo. What frequently emerges from these polarities is a promise that police, prosecutors, judges, and other government actors will use their vast discretion to...
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Indonesian Terrorism Law and Criminal Process
Butt, Simon - 2009
This paper describes and analyses Indonesia's Anti-terrorism Law of 2002. It provides a brief background to the law's enactment, the crimes it defines, and compares the law with pre-existing provisions of Indonesia's Criminal Code that had been applied against those accused of terrorism before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208102
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Terrorism and International Criminal Law : Questions of (In)Coherence and (Il)Legitimacy
Saul, Ben - 2012
A decade after 9/11, the international field of counter-terrorism is now thick with law. But that does not mean that the law is coherent or legitimate. The birth of new rules, institutions and processes can be anarchic. New norms overlay older, pre-existing legal forms and regimes, generating...
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Competitive pressure and corporate crime : conference paper
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2014
lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model la Becker, allowing … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased …
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