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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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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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The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …
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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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related to the activity of organized crime, as homicide, extortion, drug-trafficking or usury. Petty crimes are estimated to …, the signaling role of the policy, and other forms of social control) rather than induced by organized crime itself. …
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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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Every year, across the country, the federal and state governments spend about $259 million on Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs); these agencies conduct investigations that recover almost $1.8 billion in inappropriate Medicaid spending, returning $7 for every $1 spent. We study the effects of...
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The chapter begins with a brief discussion of the distinctive features of policing and prosecuting the money laundering offence. It then outlines the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)'s international standards on money laundering and its method of mutual evaluation, particularly after the...
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penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …
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and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …
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