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This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
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We provide a critical discussion of the concept drug-related crime and review methods for estimating its volume … 2003-6, combining data from the Arrestee Survey and Offending Crime and Justice Survey to ensure adequate coverage of … the volume of drug-induced acquisitive crime linked to heroin use is high, but there is no significant evidence of violent …
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to 2008. The Johansen cointegratiom methodology along with Granger causality through VEC is applied to the annual time …
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Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison …
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observable and unobservable private precautions against crime. An analysis of welfare implications determines that a setting in …
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An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...
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can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any … frequency of violation at equilibrium. This result is misleading: payoffs are not independent and the crime game can not be … crime of tax evasion, where the dishonest taxpayers are rational agents, motivated by the comparison of payoffs, considering …
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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; delinquency decision ; key group ; NP-hard problem ; crime policies …
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double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …
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