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education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on …
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Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …
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On November 14, 2013, Professor Dervan was called to testify before the United States House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary Over-Criminalization Task Force. Available here is his written testimony. In his written testimony, Professor Dervan examines the phenomenon of...
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In the absence of a bill of rights in Australia with which to evaluate and challenge sophisticated rights-based arguments for evaluating anti-terrorism laws, those faced with arguably excessive laws are left with little upon which to hang their challenges. In the High Court case of Thomas vs....
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time from treating terrorism as ordinary crime (augmented by sector-specific, transnational treaty offences) to …
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This paper describes and analyses Indonesia's Anti-terrorism Law of 2002. It provides a brief background to the law's enactment, the crimes it defines, and compares the law with pre-existing provisions of Indonesia's Criminal Code that had been applied against those accused of terrorism before...
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Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the … link between crime and growth based on the theory of rational choice and empirical data. Exogenous and endogenous growth …
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comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health … outcomes do not show significant effect on poverty. Although, the estimates of inequality, health and education outcomes are …
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