Albanians still occur assassinations and which in the opinion presented as blood feud murders committed by and on behalf of the canon, as murders committed due to the lack of force of law. Are such these murders, and as is acceptable to the people that they were carried out according to of...

Ziel der explorativen Untersuchung war es, mögliche Probleme in der Verfolgung von Verstößen gegen Tierschutzgesetze im Nutztierbereich zu identifizieren und Verbesserungsvorschläge zu sammeln. Der Ausgangspunkt für die Studie war die Aussage von Amtstierärzten, dass eindeutige Verstöße...

We use a panel dataset of around 3.500 rural households from Southeast Asia and investigate evidence on crime victimization. More concretely, we ask (1) to what extent are rural people in Thailand and Vietnam affected by crime? And (2) what factors determine rural crime victimization? We use the...

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...

This article continues what has now become a comprehensive series examining the new U.S. reporting and withholding system for foreign account tax compliance. Part VI provides a new four-point analysis to determine if an FFI or USFI has a withholding tax liability for pass-through payments under...

This paper is the introductory chapter to Insider Trading (Oxford University Press 3d ed. 2010). This treatise analyzes the application of various laws to stock market insider trading and tipping. Among the federal laws are Exchange Act section 10(b), SEC Rule 10b-5, mail/wire fraud, SEC Rule...

This forthcoming article explores the question of why individuals resist apologizing, even when it is rationally in their best interest to do so - such as when it would significantly reduce a criminal sentence or settle a civil lawsuit at little or no cost. Drawing on a significant body of...

Objective: Third-party policing (TPP) refers to police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties to take some responsibility for crime control and prevention. The Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances (YEOs) of Japan aim to combat organized crime syndicates---the yakuza. Consistent with the principles...

China's recent crackdown on government corruption and commercial bribery by multinational companies is widely known. As part of this campaign against bribery, the Chinese government has promulgated a number of new laws against corruption and bribery as well as lengthy and binding interpretations...