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The Dog that Stopped Barking: Mass Legal Executions in 21st Century America

Blackman, Paul H.; McLaughlin, Vance - In: Laws 3 (2014) 1, pp. 153-162

During the first two centuries of European colonization of what is now the United States, executions for a variety of offenses relatively frequently involved mass executions, that is, the execution for the same criminal incident of four or more persons. By the time of American independence, some...

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Understanding Proposed Changes to the H-1B Visa: Protecting American Government Interests, Improving the Opportunities for American Companies, or Potentially Hurting Hopeful Immigr...

Stonawski, Rebecca - In: Laws 2 (2013) 3, pp. 233-243

This paper will examine the US government’s proposed changes to the H-1B visa, a dual-intent visa meant to bring highly-skilled individuals to the US labor market. It will first explain what the H-1B visa is and is not and what might happen to the H-1B visa in the future. The focus of the...

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The effectiveness of juvenile correctional facilities : public versus private management

Bayer, Patrick J.; Pozen, David E. - 2004 - Revised

This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed...

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Misaligned incentives and the scale of incarceration in the United States

Ouss, Aurélie - In: Journal of public economics 191 (2020), pp. 1-14

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"Might not be a tomorrow" : a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime

Brezina, Timothy (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor); … - 2008

A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of...

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Building criminal capital behind bars : social learning in juvenile corrections

Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Pozen, David E. - 2003

This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...

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Lack of Integrity? Rebutting the Myth that U.S. Commercial Sports Leagues Have an Intellectual Property Right to Sports Gambling Proceeds

Edelman, Marc - 2018

On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U.S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from...

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Bilateral Investment Treaty and Free Trade Agreement : The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the United States

Nawafleh, Abdullah - 2011

Comments on key rules and principles of: (1) the Jordan-United States Bilateral Investment Treaty 1997, including those concerning most favoured nation treatment, free transfer of profits, the settlement of disputes, and qualifying industrial zones; and (2) the Jordan-United States Free Trade...

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Essays on external conditions and wage-setting within firms

Verhoogen, Eric - 2004

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Information effects of US monetary policy announcements on emerging economies : evidence from Mexico

Alba, Carlos; Carrillo, Julio A.; Ibarra-Ramírez, Raúl - 2024

conditions in Mexico, appreciate the peso/dollar exchange rate, lower the sovereign risk premium and forex volatility, and … increase stock prices, real activity and prices in Mexico. In contrast, restrictive US monetary policy shocks tighten financial … conditions, and reduce real activity and prices in Mexico. …

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