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When Good People Do Bad Things : Time-Inconsistent Misconduct & Criminal Law

Utset, Manuel A. - 2011

This article develops a model of time-inconsistent criminal misconduct. It shows that people who from a long-term perspective want to be law-abiding may nonetheless engage in repeated misconduct due to the pull of their short-term preferences for immediate gratification. I demonstrate that the...

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Opting Out of EU Criminal Law : What is Actually Involved?

Hinarejos, Alicia - 2012

Protocol 36 to the Lisbon Treaty gives the UK the right to opt out en bloc of all the police and criminal justice measures adopted under the Treaty of Maastricht ahead of the date when the Court of Justice of the EU at Luxembourg will acquire jurisdiction in relation to them. The government is...

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Terror and Tenderness in Criminal Law

Hanan, Eve - 2023

The criminal legal system is at a crossroads. Calls for abolition are met with calls for modest adjustments or maintenance of the status quo. What frequently emerges from these polarities is a promise that police, prosecutors, judges, and other government actors will use their vast discretion to...

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Cultures of Compliance

Langevoort, Donald C. - 2017

efforts are occurring quickly, without great confidence in their efficacy. Thus the interest in culture. This article explores … what a culture of compliance means and why it is so hard to achieve. The "dark side" that enables non-compliance in …, and celebrations of beliefs and attitudes that bring with them compliance dangers. The article addresses how both culture …

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Anti-Rape Culture

Gruber, Aya - 2016

-rape culture” ― a set of empirical claims about rape's prevalence, causes, and effects and a set of normative ideas about sex … surge of interest is due less to an escalation of rape culture than to a new found anti-rape culture ― a distinctly feminist … on the costs of anti-rape culture's construction of the status quo as one in which at least a quarter of college women …

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Cultural Cognition of Patents

Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore - 2014

Simply making empirical progress is not always enough to influence policy, as demonstrated by the polarized public discourse over issues ranging from climate change to gun control. The current discourse over patents appears to have a similar pathology, in which cultural values — such as...

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The Theory of Penalties and the Economics of Criminal Law

Hylton, Keith N. - 2005

This paper presents a model of penalties that reconciles the conflicting accounts optimal punishment by Becker, who argued penalties should internalize social costs, and Posner, who suggested penalties should completely deter offenses. The model delivers specific recommendations as to when...

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Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law

Shavell, Steven - 2003

This paper contains the chapters on public enforcement of law and on criminal law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). By public law enforcement is meant the use of public law enforcement agents - such as police, tax...

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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice

Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83

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