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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence : Does Arrest Matter?

Tauchen, Helen V. - 1994

In this paper, we estimate a stochastic-dynamic model for domestic violence using data collected by the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment. Our primary finding is that arrest deters domestic violence, but the effect wears off quite quickly. We find also that current employment for the male...

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Anchoring Effect of the Prosecutor's Demand on Sentence : Evidence from Korean Sexual Crime Case

Kim, Jungwook - 2017

to the seriousness of the crime committed. Specifically, at the lowest penalty levels, a one-month increase in the …

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Sexual Harassment : A Crime Against Women

Pandey, P.K - 2012

In India, earlier, on one hand women were regarded as Laxmi, Devi, Durga and so on and on other hand they were confined to four walls, they had not any opportunity to share their views publically too. Their role was limited only to provide enjoyment to male community. But after industrial...

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Alcohol and Rape : An Economics-of-Crime Perspective

Benson, Bruce L.; Zimmerman, Paul R. - 2007

potential relationship is examined in the context of an economics-of-crime model, controlling for various deterrence and … rape rates rather than other violent crime rates. Several studies have discovered a tendency for relatively high alcohol …, unlike other types of violent crime, can suggest the nature of the alcohol-consumption-violence relationship. The empirical …

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Sexual exploitation of trafficked children : survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh

Shoji, Masahiro; Tsubota, Kenmei - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 50 (2022) 1, pp. 101-117

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Michigan's Sex Offender Registration Act : Is It Constitutional?

Furtaw, Alexander - 2022

This document is a working draft of a student Note that will be submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals analyzing potential constitutional challenges to Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (“MSORA”). The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Does #1–5 v. Snyder and the...

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Socio-economic determinants and consequences of criminal offenses against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability

Volobuieva, Olena; Severinova, Oleksandra; Ponomarova, … - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 8 (2022) 5, pp. 86-91

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The Probabilities of Sex Offender Rearrest

Broadhurst, Roderic; Loh, Nini - 2013

Estimates of the probabilities of rearrest for sex offenders apprehended (n=2,785) in Western Australia between 1984 and 1994 are reported. Subjects on average were followed up for 5.7 years and assessed by criminal record, Aboriginality, bail status, age, occupation and penal intervention....

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Evolution of Legal Regulation of Responsibility for Nonviolent Sexual Crimes Against Minors

Brusentseva, Vasilina - 2015

In this article process formation and development of the legislation providing responsibility for commission of nonviolent sexual crimes, made concerning minor persons is considered.The legislation of the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods is analyzed.Development of rules of law occurred...

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Semi-Confidential Settlements in Civil, Criminal, and Sexual Assault Cases

Levmore, Saul; Fagan, Frank - 2021

Settlement is more likely if parties are free to set its terms, including a promise that these terms will remain secret between them. State sunshine-in-litigation laws work to defeat this incentive for confidentiality in order to protect third parties from otherwise unknown hazards. The...

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