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Playing without a rulebook : optimal enforcement when individuals learn the penalty only by committing the crime
Ben-Shahar, Omri - In: International review of law and economics 17 (1997) 3, pp. 409-421
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Let the punishment fit the crime : enforcement with error
Chakraborty, Indranil; McAfee, Randolph Preston - In: Journal of public economic theory 16 (2014) 2, pp. 274-292
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2011
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129937
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Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment
Becker, Gary S. - 2013
Becker's economic theory of crime and punishment, originally published in The Journal of Political Economy in 1968 under the … title “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach.” In this historic, second encounter at the University of Chicago, Gary … Becker responds to Foucault's lectures and possible critical readings of his writings on crime and punishment, in …
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Crime and Uncertain Punishment in Transition Economies
Katz, Barbara G. - 2009
We consider a continuum of agents in a transition country where the transfer of property rights has occurred. The transition is in progress and the nature of the government's future policies is unknown to the agents. Agents believe that the present government can evolve into one of two types: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158072
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Crime, Punishment, and Tax
Tabbach, Avraham D. - 2008
This paper analyzes how income taxation affects optimal law enforcement. A key insight of the analysis is that if monetary sanctions are deductible, income taxation is equivalent to increasing offenders' wealth. This implies, for example, that income taxation reduces the social costs of crime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722429
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Crime and Uncertain Punishment
Katz, Barbara G. - 2008
We consider agents in a country in an early stage of transition from a planned to a market economy. As the transition is in progress, the nature of the government's policies are unknown to the agents. Property rights once held by the state have already been transferred to the agents, with each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727246
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779694
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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Speeding Fines and Recidivism
Goncalves, Felipe - 2017
, and we instrument the punishment faced by a ticketed driver with the stopping officer's average lenience towards other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944328
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Crime and Uncertain Punishment
Katz, Barbara G. - 2008
We consider agents in a country in an early stage of transition from a planned to a market economy. As the transition is in progress, the nature of the government's policies are unknown to the agents. Property rights once held by the state have already been transferred to the agents, with each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769859