wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average … length of sentences. We propose an original micro-founded police production function linking the level of police expenditures …

The project of bolstering the administrative state’s perceived legitimacy is central to administrative law. To enhance … agencies’ legitimacy with the public, generations of judges and scholars have variously called for changes designed to insulate … citizens — the very people whose beliefs constitute popular legitimacy.This Article replaces supposition and projection …

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 … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

connected to a local police station: if the police do not respond to a home alarm, the home alarm on its own is virtually …

Objective: Third-party policing (TPP) refers to police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties to take some …