The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …

Recently many papers have used the arrest rate to measure punishments in crime-rate regressions. However, arrest rates … rates, but not sentence lengths, have significant explanatory power in standard crime-rate regressions …

masses. After some small property crimes, they thought that a "perfect" major crime, committed without emotion or detection …

' Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention). A sample of 107 countries that have already signed and …/or ratified the Convention was selected. The paper verifies that the most effective implemented measures against organized crime …" businesses linked to organized crime; (iii) the attack against high level public sector corruption linked to organized crime …

of detection is very great and the scale of punishment very large. Risk neutral people will appear to love risk. Patient … of detection increases the amount of crime committed, rather than lowering it. Constitutional safeguards are an important … deterrent to crime …

' Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention). A sample of 107 countries that have already signed and …/or ratified the Convention was selected. The paper verifies that the most effective implemented measures against organized crime …" businesses linked to organized crime; (iii) the attack against high level public sector corruption linked to organized crime …

sanctions as punishment under EC cartel law. It examines the traditional rationales of criminal punishment, demonstrating their … this deficiency should be rectified through the use of criminal punishment as reinforcement for other less controversial …

effects, social scientific theory regarding the effects of in-group norms on behavior. Analysis of the expanded model shows …