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wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average … length of sentences. We propose an original micro-founded police production function linking the level of police expenditures …
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The project of bolstering the administrative state’s perceived legitimacy is central to administrative law. To enhance … agencies’ legitimacy with the public, generations of judges and scholars have variously called for changes designed to insulate … citizens — the very people whose beliefs constitute popular legitimacy.This Article replaces supposition and projection …
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We analyze corruption in law enforcement: the payment of bribes to enforcement agents, threats to frame innocent individuals in order to extort money from them, and the actual framing of innocent individuals. Bribery, extortion, and framing reduce deterrence and are thus worth discouraging....
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interpreted this to require that police obtain a warrant prior to search and that illegally seized evidence be excluded from trial …. A consensus has developed in the law and economics literature that tort liability for police officers would be a …-seeking police, and develop a game-theoretic model to compare the two remedies when some police officers (“bad” types) are willing to …
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A substantial body of empirical and policy literature argues that greater investment in schools can be a powerful tool against criminality and violence. On the other hand, recent work has demonstrated that low levels of public safety can have serious detrimental effects on educational outcomes....
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methods developed herein is the use of deadly force by police officers in the United States. We construct a yearly panel of … estimate counterfactuals for the nation's ten largest police departments by population served, and show that feasible changes …
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Scandals are a recurring feature of UK financial services and they were probably more common in the 1840s than today. There is no overwhelming evidence that general financial practice is less ethical than it was in the Victorian era and it appears more likely that ethical standards have risen....
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2016, for towns policed under the province's contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We find that fiscal rules …
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …
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This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
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