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Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017

We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...

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Optimal imprisonment and fines with non-discriminatory sentences

Garoupa, Nuno; Mungan, Murat - In: Economics letters 182 (2019), pp. 105-108

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Chapter 6 The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 403-454). 2007

This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors … apprehending violators? A variety of extensions of the central theory are then examined, including: activity level; errors; the …

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Nonmarket Criminal Justice Fees

Jurow Kleiman, Ariel - 2021

The public finance literature tells us that user fees will introduce market-like efficiency to public good provision. Meanwhile, criminal justice scholars note that criminal justice fees have run amok, causing crippling debt, undermining reentry efforts, and raising civil rights and...

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A simple model of optimal deterrence and incapacitation

Shavell, Steven - In: International review of law and economics 42 (2015), pp. 13-19

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Over-incarceration and disenfranchisement

Mungan, Murat C. - In: Public choice 172 (2017) 3/4, pp. 377-395

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Crime as exchange : comparing alternative economic theories of criminal justice

Miceli, Thomas J. - In: European journal of law and economics 51 (2021) 3, pp. 523-539

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Incentives Structures and Criminal Justice

Ouss, Aurelie - 2015

The conventional assumption in economics of crime is that criminal justice system actors behave like social planners … crime reduction from this extra incarceration …

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Criminal justice from a public choice perspective : an introduction to the special issue

Adamson, Jordan; Rentschler, Lucas - In: Public choice 196 (2023) 3/4, pp. 223-227

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Retributive and Corrective Justice, Criminal and Private Law

Wood, David Alan Russell - 2010

retributive and distributive justice in criminal law theory. Likewise, there is considerable discussion of the relation between … corrective and distributive justice in private law theory. However, there is comparatively little discussion of the relation … between retributive justice and corrective justice, whether in criminal law theory, private law theory, or legal theory …

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