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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015

evidence on punishment preferences, in which subjects reveal a heterogeneous preference for punishing wrongdoers, our model … identifies circumstances in which “punitive” individuals (with stronger-than-average punishment preferences) will self …-select into law enforcement jobs that offer the opportunity to punish (or facilitate the punishment of) wrongdoers. Such “punitive …

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The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project : A Simplified Economic Crimes Guideline, Model Sentencing Guidelines §2b1.1

Bowman III, Frank O. - 2006

This Article is the third of twelve parts of a set of Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines designed to illustrate the feasibility and advantages of a simplified approach to federal sentencing proposed by the Constitution Project Sentencing Initiative. The Model Sentencing Guidelines and the...

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Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders

Emons, Winand - 2006

Agents may commit a crime twice. The act is inefficient so that the agents are to be deterred. Even if an agent is law abiding, she may still commit the act accidentally. The agents are wealth constrained. The government seeks to minimize the probability of apprehension. If the benefit from the...

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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 …

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The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence : theory and evidence from the laboratory

Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …

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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity

Soliman, Adam - 2021

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …

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Leniency policies and illegal transactions

Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2005 - First version: October 1999, Final version: September 8, 2005

We study the consequences of leniency - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is known that leniency helps deterring illegal...

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Law enforcement and illegal markets : evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil

Mancha, André - 2022

I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the effect of shifts in legal authorities' surveillance by focusing on junkyards, firms often associated with illegal markets and auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities...

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Crime and punishment re-awakened : insights on a risky business from the worker's perspective

Garoupa, Nuno; Martins, Ana Paula - 2002 - Revised, September 2002

This research inspects the general implications of considering duration of confinement as a deduction to the convicted consumer-worker time endowment. Even if analytically simple, the model is able to shed some light on the expected wage profile of criminals, and the pattern of their...

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On the Sanctioning of Economic Crime in Denmark

Lando, Henrik - 2014

This article - written for a symposium on comparative criminal law - discusses whether sanctions for economic crime have become excessive in the Danish context either in absolute terms or in comparison with sanctions for crimes involving physical harm.The text has three parts. In the first part,...

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