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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - 2010

Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the … presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

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Organization and information in the fight against crime: An evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Viveiros, Igor - 2010

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The engine immobilizer: A non-starter for car thieves

Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - 2013

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …

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Turning 18: What a difference application of adult criminal law makes

Entorf, Horst - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...

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Frontiers in the economics of crime: Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

Jaitman, Laura - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-36

Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic …, the costs of crime represent at least 3.5% of the regional gross domestic product, twice as much as in developed countries …. Despite the magnitude of the security problem, the region is lagging in the production of rigorous research on crime and the …

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...

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Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

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Bad boys: How criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282468

The effects of leniency on illegal transactions: How (not) to fight corruption

Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2001

We study the consequences of 'leniency' - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly designed, leniency may be highly...

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Power over prosecutors corrupts politicians: cross country evidence using a new indicator

van Aaken, Anne; Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was …

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