Showing 101 - 110 of 30,997
This paper examines the economy's vulnerability to money laundering in a given region. Assuming that criminals are rational investors who take into account risks and returns of both legal and illegal investments, we define vulnerability as a function of well-identified drivers. Proxies of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941002
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763925
We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not in neighboring districts. We collect data from female sex workers and their clients before and after the change. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823426
commission of corporate crime—they allow offenders to square their self-perception as “good people” with the illegal behavior … of white collar and corporate crime. The result is that many compliance programs, by mimicking the criminal law in hopes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969723
How do criminals respond to changes in the benefit from committing a successful crime? This question is relevant for … understanding the effectiveness of crime-fighting policies that reduce demand for illegal goods, disrupt black markets, and …, partly because finding a reliable measure of crime lucre is difficult. Using proprietary data on cargo theft, I match …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004340
arrests or to minimize crime? In this paper, I compare models of the two police objectives to data from U.S. cities. Empirical … evidence is consistent with a model of arrest maximization and inconsistent with a model of crime minimization. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852766
responsibility for crime control and prevention. The Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances (YEOs) of Japan aim to combat organized crime … crime. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of the YEOs' effect suggests the effectiveness of enforcement policies that … intensively target regions with lower concentration of organized crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855219
We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little … evidence of an impact on violent crime rates in the state. Once changes in offense definitions and reporting practices in key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861300
On November 14, 2013, Professor Dervan was called to testify before the United States House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary Over-Criminalization Task Force. Available here is his written testimony. In his written testimony, Professor Dervan examines the phenomenon of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051862
Crime risk perception is known to be an important determinant of individual well-being. It is therefore crucial that we … but also for impacting on citizens' crime risk perception. In this framework, the aim of this study is to analyze both the … individual and neighbourhood determinants of citizens' crime risk perception in the City of Barcelona (Spain) focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056966