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Miceli, Thomas J. - 2022

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Crime, Incentives and Political Effort : A Model and Empirical Application for India

Gehring, Kai - 2017

Political representatives with criminal backgrounds are considered a great problem in many countries. In India in particular, the public disclosure of the large share of politicians currently facing criminal charges has sparked a heated public debate and emerging literature assessing the causes...

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Threats and Criminal Deterrence in Several Dimensions

Levmore, Saul - 2017

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Optimal Law Enforcement Under Asymmetric Information

Jellal, Mohamed; Garoupa, Nuno - 2000

In this paper, we focus on the problem created by asymmetric information about the enforcer's (agent's) costs associated to enforcement expenditure. This adverse selection problem affects optimal law enforcement because a low cost enforcer may conceal its information by imitating a high cost...

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Economic Models of Criminal Behavior : An Overview

Heineke, John M - 2011

In this paper we construct four rather broad classes of theoretical models of criminal behavior and analyze the properties of each class. Our focus is on the testable hypotheses which arise from each class

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Crime Deterrence and Choice : Testing the Rational Behavior Hypothesis

Heineke, John M - 2011

This paper contrasts some of the differences in criminal choice model building as done by sociologists and as done by economists. Discussed are methodological differences, statistical differences (how causality is accounted for) and conceptual differences (the meaning and testing of the...

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Property Crime, Recidivism and Household Behavior

Telidevara, Sridhar - 2011

This paper presents a model of strategic interaction between households and recidivists who commit property crimes. It is estimated that the households pay an income tax rate between 0.12%-0.21% for protection from a loss of 1.8% to 2.25% of their annual incomes. Thirteen percent to 22% of total...

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Retributive and Corrective Justice, Criminal and Private Law

Wood, David Alan Russell - 2010

retributive and distributive justice in criminal law theory. Likewise, there is considerable discussion of the relation between … corrective and distributive justice in private law theory. However, there is comparatively little discussion of the relation … between retributive justice and corrective justice, whether in criminal law theory, private law theory, or legal theory …

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Criminal Constitutions

Leeson, Peter T.; Skarbek, David - 2010

Why do criminals use constitutions? This paper argues that constitutions perform three critical functions in criminal organizations. First, criminal constitutions promote consensus by creating common knowledge among criminals about what the organization expects of them and what they can expect...

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The Crime of Copyright Infringement : An Inquiry Based on Morality, Harm, and Criminal Theory

Moohr, Geraldine Szott - 2009

This inquiry considers whether the new crime of copyright infringement, which prohibits personal, noncommercial copying, is justified by retributive and utilitarian theories of punishment - to enforce a shared moral standard or to prevent harm to the community. The harm rationale, to prevent...

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