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Twitter and crime : the effect of social movements on gender-based violence

Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta - 2022

link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …

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What Makes the Securities Criminal Law System of the United States Work? ‘All-Embracing’ ‘Blanket’ Securities Crimes and the Linked Enforcement Framework

Tajti, Tibor - 2021

The article explores the key factors that make the securities criminal law of the United States (US), as one of the integral building blocks of the capital markets and securities regulatory system, efficient. This includes the role and characteristics of sectoral (blanket) all-embracing...

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Judicial Errors, Crime Deterrence and Appeals : Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts

Sarel, Roee - 2018

This paper investigates how different outcomes of criminal appeals impact crime deterrence. My panel data analysis … (1997-2013) indicates that crime rates decrease when convictions are affirmed by the appellate court, as long as conviction … rates are not too high. Crime rates are further found to decrease when convictions are reversed but increase when cases are …

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Does the certainty of arrest reduce domestic violence? : Evidence from mandatory and recommended arrest laws

Iyengar, Radha - 2007

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest abusers when a domestic violence incident is...