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Forecasting Methods in Crime and Justice

Berk, Richard - 2008

Researchers who study crime and justice have been forecasting a variety of outcomes for nearly a century. Perhaps the … and time trends in crime. However, it is very difficult to determine how accurate such forecasts have been because few … forecasts have been properly evaluated. In the hope of improving crime and justice forecasts in the future, this article reviews …

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Crime and Uncertain Punishment

Katz, Barbara G. - 2008

We consider agents in a country in an early stage of transition from a planned to a market economy. As the transition is in progress, the nature of the government's policies are unknown to the agents. Property rights once held by the state have already been transferred to the agents, with each...

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Prison sentencing and criminal activity : a dynamic model

Pelletan, Jacques - In: Revue d'économie politique 130 (2020) 4, pp. 659-681

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Wrongful Convictions, Deterrence, and Stigma Dilution

Mungan, Murat C. - 2018

There is no consensus in the economics of law enforcement literature regarding the likely effects of wrongful convictions on deterrence. While many assert that wrongful convictions and wrongful acquittals are likely to cause similar reductions in deterrence, others, most notably Lando (2006),...

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Optimal Law Enforcement with Sophisticated and Naive Offenders

Buechel, Berno - 2018

Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...

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Should offenders' gains be counted? : on efficient crimes and unjust laws

Miceli, Thomas J. - 2021

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Becker’s Crime Promoting Theory : A Theory of Crime Prevention

Choi, Hak - 2017

positive crime theory. Accordingly, thieves will commit more offenses if the booty price is higher and/or their labor wage is …This paper points out that Becker's crime model is actually promoting crimes, that its crimes help government collect … lower. This paper suggests killing monopolies and securing private property as means to prevent crime. Finally, it reveals …

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Double Inchoate Crimes

Robbins, Ira P. - 2016

American criminal law treats the inchoate crimes of attempt, conspiracy, and solicitation as substantive offenses punishable by criminal sanctions. The legal system criminalizes the types. of behavior that constitute these offenses to intervene before an actor completes the intended illegal act....

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Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2016

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …

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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Speeding Fines and Recidivism

Goncalves, Felipe - 2017

We estimate the causal effect of harsher speeding punishments on future driving behavior of cited drivers. To account for the fact that punishments are not randomly assigned, we leverage variation in ticket-writing practices across highway patrol officers in Florida. The fine associated with a...

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