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. Meanwhile, criminal justice scholars note that criminal justice fees have run amok, causing crippling debt, undermining reentry …, arguing that criminal justice fees have become harmful precisely because they deviate from the traditional market …-like environment that the public finance literature envisions. This nonmarket structure occurs for two reasons. First, criminal justice …
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known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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