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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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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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Economic Analysis of Criminal Procedure
Hylton, Keith N. - 2014
This essay reviews the economics of criminal procedure, proceeding through four topics in the literature. First, I review the implications of substantive criminal law theories for criminal procedure. The second part discusses the error cost model of criminal procedure, which is the dominant...
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Abandoned Criminal Attempts : An Economic Analysis
Mungan, Murat C. - 2016
An attempt is 'abandoned' if the criminal, despite having a chance to continue with his criminal plan, forgoes the opportunity to do so. A regime that makes abandonment a defense to criminal attempts provides an incentive to the offender to withdraw from his criminal conduct prior to completing...
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Political Economy of Criminal Procedure
Hylton, Keith N.; Khanna, Vikramaditya S. - 2008
This chapter presents a public choice theory of criminal procedure. The core idea is that criminal procedure is best understood as a set of rules designed to thwart attempts to use the state's law enforcement power in a predatory fashion or in order to transfer wealth generally. For the most...
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Retributive and Corrective Justice, Criminal and Private Law
Wood, David Alan Russell - 2010
Some see criminal law as essentially or predominately an exercise in retributive justice. And some see private law as essentially or predominantly an exercise in corrective justice. There is considerable discussion of the relation between retributive and distributive justice in criminal law...
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A modern guide to the economics of crime
Buonanno, Paolo (ed.); Vanin, Paolo (ed.);  … - 2022
crime in specific groups including migrants, women and racial minorities, and finally turning from individual to organized …"A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars … and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable …
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The Effect of Type-1 Error on Deterrence
Lando, Henrik - 2020
offender may be falsely convicted of a crime committed by someone else whether or not he himself acts lawfully, and that type-1 …
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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...
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The Effects of Racial Profiling, Taste-Based Discrimination, and Enforcer Liability on Crime
Mungan, Murat C. - 2020
The literature contains ambiguous findings as to whether statistical discrimination, e.g. in the form of racial profiling, causes a reduction in deterrence. These analyses, however, assume that enforcers' incentives are exogenously fixed. This article demonstrates that when the costs and...
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