consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy … environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I …

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 …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … enforcement in which courts constrain police with pro-defendant rules of criminal procedure. We also explore various other … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … enforcement in which courts constrain police with pro-defendant rules of criminal procedure. We also explore various other … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but there is no standard … economic model of police as public agents. We seek to remedy this deficiency by offering an agency model of police behavior. We …) will self-select into law enforcement jobs that offer the opportunity to punish (or facilitate the punishment of …

section of 236 US MSA, the paper finds that greater agency fragmentation leads to less law enforcement effort, but also to … less crime. This seemingly contradictory result is robust to many alternative specifications. To explain the result a model … well as incarcerating them. In this model greater agency fragmentation by inself leads to lower spending but higher crime …

This paper investigates how local law enforcement agencies operate within a metropolitan area when there is an elastic … flow of criminal activity between them. A model is developed in which a unilateral increase in local law enforcement effort …, an MSA with many (small) agencies could wind up engaging in more or less effort - resulting in less or more crime. In a …

with enforcement rights; second, the rights of the individuals are (partly) restricted. In a simple model of property … rights with appropriation and defense activity, we show that a restriction of private enforcement is beneficial for the … commitment device for a certain level of enforcement. However, commitment will only work if the state can regulate private …