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Liberal coercion? Prostitution, human trafficking and policy

Cho, Seo-young - 2013

better protection policy for trafficking victims and enhanced anti-trafficking measures. In this paper, I investigate … empirically whether the legalization of prostitution improves protection policy for victims, as it is presumed. The results of my … lead to better protection and, in some cases, legalized prostitution can be detrimental to protecting victims of human …

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Logistic regression for extremely rare events: The case of school shootings

Westphal, Christian - 2013

School shootings are often used in public policy debate as a justification for increased regulation, based on qualitative arguments. However, to date, no effort has been made to find valid quantitative evidence for the claims bolstering the regulation recommendations. In defense of this absence...

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Human trafficking and regulating prostitution

Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - 2013

We study human trafficking in a marriage market model of prostitution. When trafficking is based on coercion, trafficking victims constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated prostitution market. We ask if regulation can eradicate trafficking and restore the outcome that would arise...

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Tätermotivation in der Wirtschaftskriminalität

Cleff, Thomas; Luppold, Lisa; Naderer, Gabriele; … - 2008

Die vorliegende Studie skizziert zunächst die Bedeutung von Wirtschaftskriminalität aus Sicht der deutschen Unternehmen sowie den derzeitigen Forschungsstand zu den Ursachen von Wirtschaftskriminalität. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Motive von Wirtschaftsstraftätern noch nicht hinreichend...

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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 an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by substance-abuse-treatment facility openings and closings measured at the county level. The results indicate that...

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Wheeling into School and Out of Crime: Evidence from Linking Driving Licenses to Minimum Academic Requirements

Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - 2016

Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have set minimum academic requirements for high school students to apply for and retain their driving licenses. These laws popularly known as "No Pass No Drive" (NPND), encourage teenagers with a preference for driving to stay in school beyond the...

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Gefährliche Nachbarschaft? Welches Bild von Kriminalität die deutsche lokale und regionale Tagespresse zeichnet: Ergebnisse einer standardisierten Inhaltsanalyse

Ihle, Holger; Bernhard, Uli; Dohle, Marco - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 2, pp. 27-44

Kriminalität kann in der Regel nicht unmittelbar wahrgenommen werden, sondern nur mittelbar über die Medienberichterstattung. Im Hinblick auf die wahrgenommene Bedrohungslage kommt insbesondere den lokalen und regionalen Abonnementzeitungen eine hohe Bedeutung zu. Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags...

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Gun violence in the U.S.: Correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that firearm-related offenses in a given county increase with the number of illegal guns and decrease with social...

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Gun violence in the U.S.: Correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

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Voting over law enforcement: Mission impossible

İnal, Hakan - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 3, pp. 349-360

Median voter theorem has been used in many economic environments including law enforcement. Assumptions of the median voter theorem, however, are generally violated in lawenforcement models. Moreover, it is impossible to have agents with "opposite equilibrium preferences" over enforcement levels...

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