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The enterprise of law : justice without the state

Benson, Bruce L. - 1990

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Why is the U.S. Abdicating the Policing of Multinational Corporations to Europe? : Extraterritorialism, Sovereignty, and the Alien Tort Statute

Kirshner, Jodie A. - 2012

The United States has policed the multinational effects of multinational corporations more aggressively than any other coun-try, but recent decisions under the Alien Tort Statute indicate that it is now backtracking. Europe, paradoxically, is moving in the other direction. Why do some countries...

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Proactive Policing and Robbery Rates Across U.S. Cities

Kubrin, Charis - 2012

In recent years, criminologists, as well as journalists, have devoted considerable attention to the potential deterrent effect of what is sometimes referred to as “proactive” policing. This style of policing entails the vigorous enforcement of laws against relatively minor or frequent...

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The Effect of Police on Crime : New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010

Chalfin, Aaron - 2013

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily … simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities … over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected estimates of the police elasticity of the cost-weighted sum of …

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Criminal Prosecutions and the 2008 Financial Crisis in the US and Iceland : What Can A Small Town Icelandic Police Chief Teach the US About Prosecuting Wall Street?

Rex, Justin - 2020

Politicians, journalists, and academics alike highlight the paucity of criminal prosecutions for senior financial executives in the United States in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. One common argument for the lack of prosecutions is that, though industry players behaved recklessly, they...

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Social distancing, stimulus payments, and domestic violence : evidence from the US during COVID-19

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022

to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January …-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early spike in police calls disappears around mid-April, coinciding with the …

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Violent Crime and the Overmilitarization of US Policing

Masera, Federico - 2019

Using new data at the police department level, I propose an identification strategy to estimate the causal effect that … police militarization has on reducing violent crime. I show that previous estimates are likely to be contaminated by … the displacement of violent crime to neighboring areas. Police departments overmilitarize because they do not consider …

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Undercover Policing and the Shifting Terms of Scholarly Debate : The United States and Europe in Counterpoint

Ross, Jacqueline E. - 2008

Among investigative tactics, undercover policing is unique in the extent to which it allows the police to shape the … tradition of scholarship in criminal law treats police infiltration as a problem of government law-breaking. In France, a … exploration of new means for distributing responsibility among complementary institutional actors like police, prosecutors, and …

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Comparing the Recruitment of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Police Departments in England and Wales with the USA

Rowe, Mike - 2015

create the very first police department, the phrase that the ‘police are the public, and the public are the police' was …. Unwittingly perhaps, this set the stage for efforts to create modern day police departments that are inclusive of the general … countries, the need to recruit a more ethnically and racially diverse police service has been a pressing concern for several …

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Do Police Maximize Arrests or Minimize Crime? Evidence from Racial Profiling in U.S. Cities

Stashko, Allison - 2020

It is difficult to know if racial discrepancies in police stop and search data are caused by racial bias or statistical … discrimination. In part, this is due to uncertainty over the benchmark of unbiased police behavior: do officers aim to maximize … arrests or to minimize crime? In this paper, I compare models of the two police objectives to data from U.S. cities. Empirical …

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