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Rewards versus imprisonment : the impact of choice
Mungan, Murat C. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 18 (2022) 1, pp. 69-83
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Crime prevention effects of data retention policies
Maennig, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Stefan - 2023 - Version: October 2023
Adding to the extensive political and legal debates on data retention, this is the first study to analyse the impacts of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative...
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Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and Police Incentives : Evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
Kantor, Shawn - 2017
In 1984 the federal government passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. The act included language that permitted local law enforcement agencies to share up to 80 percent of the proceeds derived from civil asset forfeitures obtained via joint operations with federal authorities. This procedure...
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Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy
Dusek, Libor - 2005
We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech … of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible … for the post-1989 growth in crime on a panel dataset of Czech regions. The results show significant deterrence effects for …
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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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Socioeconomic determinants of the changes in homicides over time : a VAR analysis
Caraballo-Cueto, Jose - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 8 (2015) 2, pp. 119-132
Purpose - We search for determinants of the change in homicides over time by analyzing the interconnection between a high incidence of murders and the socioeconomic environment, using Puerto Rico as the case study. This case presents intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime...
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Law enforcement, social control and organized crime : evidence from local government dismissals in Italy
Cingano, Federico; Tonello, Marco - 2020
increasing formal deterrence but potentially signaling improved law enforcement among local communities. This paper finds that … fall by around 10%, on average, a result that seems driven by the perception of enhanced deterrence (through media pressure …
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Punishment and crime : the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity
Jackson, Osborne - 2020 - This version: October 2019
This paper uses increases in felony larceny thresholds as a negative shock to felony conviction probability to examine the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny thresholds ("response region"), higher thresholds cause a 2...
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Measuring organized crime : statistical indicators and economics aspects
Capuano, Carlo; Giacalone, Massimiliano - 2018
One of the most negative factors that characterize Italian economy and society is the pervasive and oppressive presence of organized crime, affecting many aspects of the daily live and every sector of business. The data unfortunately show how this phenomenon is increasingly growing and involves...
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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2018
We develop a model in which two countries choose their enforcement levels non-cooperatively, in order to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide...
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