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a crime is greater than the expected cost associated with it. The size of the police force increases the expected cost … effect of police on crime and results are not uniform. This paper is an attempt to test the same in Indian context (for … selected crime categories). It is found that police force acts as a deterrent for violent crimes (Murder, Kidnapping & Murder …
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This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
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Racial disparities within the criminal justice system continue to be a pressing issue in the U.S. In this paper, we analyze data for almost four million stops by California's fifteen largest law enforcement agencies in 2019, examining the extent to which people of color experience searches,...
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Police (RMP) using the Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmark.Methodology/Technique – A survey questionnaire method was … adopted where it was distributed randomly to 100 police personnel. The respondents score ethics and integrity practices in the …
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Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …
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In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …
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incentives and deter crime in the long run. …
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