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This study is the first attempt (in the field of Law and Economics) to apply economic analysis to shari'a or Islamic criminal law, in particular, that aspect of the law pertaining to theft. Shari'a imposes two main punishments for theft; hadd, a fixed penalty of amputation of the offender's...
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The literature contains ambiguous findings as to whether statistical discrimination, e.g. in the form of racial profiling, causes a reduction in deterrence. These analyses, however, assume that enforcers' incentives are exogenously fixed. This article demonstrates that when the costs and...
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negative impacts generated by these events. In particular there is limited understanding about the impact of crime on hosting … cities. Increased crime can be a long term impact that persists after the event. This paper investigates the relation, if any …, between the fact that an Italian city hosted the 1990 World Football Cup and its crime rates. Analysis aims at better …
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Can constructs of social meaning lead to actual criminal confinement? Can the intangible value ascribed to the maintenance of certain social norms lead to radically inefficient choices about resource allocation? The disproportionate criminal confinement of people with severe mental illnesses...
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Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers that purport to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature,...
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discrimination leads to an increase in crime rates under plausible conditions. This suggests that societies in which membership to … crime rates. Attempting to fix the negative impacts of statistical discrimination through policies that reduce the … visibility of criminal records increases crime rates further. Moreover, such policies cause a greater negative effect for law …
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offender may be falsely convicted of a crime committed by someone else whether or not he himself acts lawfully, and that type-1 …
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are explicitly forced to trade-off one type of crime prevention or control policy for another and to consider the fact … that any money spent on crime prevention or control policies is money they could otherwise have in their pockets. Thus …
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desuetude insofar as it potentially covers a broader range of crimes by asking not just whether a crime has been enforced, but … constrains a judge’s analysis of a potentially dead crime to a means-end assessment under the familiar intermediate-scrutiny tier …
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Transnational Organized Crimes not merely have a bearing to the security of states, but also to that of its economy, given the large retail value of these crimes. Illicit Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, Money Laundering, smuggling, arms trade are not crimes independent of other crimes. They have a...
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