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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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The Purification of Torts, the Consolidation of Criminal Law and the Decline of Victim Power
Kirchengast, Tyrone - 2009
Gray v Motor Accidents Commission (1998) 196 CLR 1 resolved that the most appropriate arena for the punishment of individual wrongdoing resides within the Australian criminal law. The consequence of this decision is that wrongful acts may no longer give rise to exemplary damages in tort where a...
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Economic Criminal Acts According to Criminal Code of Republic of Kosovo
Ukaj, Bajram - 2017
different from regional countries. The inefficient fight and prevention of organized crime and corruption in the period between …
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Criminal Labor Law
Levin, Benjamin - 2021
This Article examines a recent rise in suits brought against unions under criminal statutes. By looking at the long history of criminal regulation of labor, the Article argues that these suits represent an attack on the theoretical underpinnings of post-New Deal U.S. labor law and an attempt to...
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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall
Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020
39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...
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Cartel behavior and efficient sanctioning by criminal sentences
Wein, Thomas - 2020
Becker's theory of crime, penalties must be at least as high as expected benefits to deter crimes. For example, we start by …
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Mandatory minimums and the sentencing of federal drug crimes
Bjerk, David - 2017
The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility quantities for crack are very small when compared to those for other drugs. This paper shows that the...
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Avoiding convictions : regression discontinuity evidence on court deferrals for first-time drug offenders
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2016
This paper studies the causal impact of court deferrals, a legal strategy to help defendants avoid a felony conviction record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit two natural experiments in Harris County, Texas, in...
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Neoliberalism, Crime and Criminal Justice
O'Malley, Pat - 2016
. Neoliberalism's place ranges from the core of neo-Marxist visions of a systematic global crime control program, through its place as … one element in a punitive Anglophone ‘culture of control', down to more modest claims that neoliberal shaping of risk … ‘neoliberal' regimes' stances on crime control. There are often tenuous and very variable connections made between neoliberal …
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Los Derechos Penales Federales Y El Derecho Penal Europeo (Federal Criminal Laws and European Criminal Law)
Muñoz de Morales Romero, Marta - 2011
Siendo una nota característica de la UE su configuración como sistema casi federal que se acompaña de técnicas de cooperación avanzadas, el estudio empírico de los modelos de integración existentes en algunos Estados de corte federal puede ser de gran ayuda como experiencia de aprendizaje...
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