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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? : disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250081
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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? : disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023 - This version: March 31, 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252023
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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455955
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Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296815
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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374569
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519915
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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532559
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Competitive pressure and corporate crime : conference paper
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2014
lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model la Becker, allowing … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486053
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Less cash, less theft? : evidence from fintech development in the People's Republic of China
Jiang, Hongze; Liang, Pinghan - 2021
This research investigates the impact of Fintech development on an important type of crime: theft. Based on Becker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609371
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Crime and weather : evidence from the Czech Republic
Mišák, Vojtěch - 2022
This article estimates the impact of weather on crime in the Czech Republic. Using detailed crime data during the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197353