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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 …
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Vague Notions in Environmental Criminal Law
Faure, Michael G. - 2012
also the case in a recent EC Directive on environmental crime. This EC Directive forces Member States to use the criminal … Environmental Crime Directive itself, however, uses often vague notions such as "substantial damage". This paper addresses the …-called lex certa principle is discussed as well as case law from a variety of other European courts. Also case law of the …
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Social Stigma, Heuristics and Criminal Law
Escresa, Laarni; Palestini, Arsen - 2011
This paper explores under what conditions social stigma exists as an additional sanction in criminal law from a behavioral law and economics perspective. A distinction is made between the court as an institution specialized at discovering and assigning blame and the rest of the society that...
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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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Conflict, Childhood and Criminal Law in Burundi (Conflit, Vulnerabilite Et 'Depenalisation' De L'Enfance Au Burundi)
albert, jean - 2013
The article reviews the latest efforts of the government of the Republic of Burundi to better protect children. It outlines the dangers that children have faced in the past and still face in the civil war stricken country. It identifies the recent measures taken by the government and the...
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Experimental Criminal Law. A Survey of Contributions from Law, Economics and Criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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The Theory of Penalties and the Economics of Criminal Law
Hylton, Keith N. - 2005
This paper presents a model of penalties that reconciles the conflicting accounts optimal punishment by Becker, who argued penalties should internalize social costs, and Posner, who suggested penalties should completely deter offenses. The model delivers specific recommendations as to when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106678
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Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law
Shavell, Steven - 2003
This paper contains the chapters on public enforcement of law and on criminal law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). By public law enforcement is meant the use of public law enforcement agents - such as police, tax...
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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice
Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83
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