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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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Tätermotivation in der Wirtschaftskriminalität

Cleff, Thomas; Luppold, Lisa; Naderer, Gabriele; … - 2008

Die vorliegende Studie skizziert zunächst die Bedeutung von Wirtschaftskriminalität aus Sicht der deutschen Unternehmen sowie den derzeitigen Forschungsstand zu den Ursachen von Wirtschaftskriminalität. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Motive von Wirtschaftsstraftätern noch nicht hinreichend...

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The effects of punishment of crime in Colombia on deterrence, incapacitation, and human capital formation

Guarin, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - 2013

property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found on non-index crimes, specifically those related to drug consumption and … immediately after reaching 18 implies future differences in human capital formation. These results suggest a specific deterrence …

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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty : facts or ideology?

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011

support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far … arguments in policy debates, but also on the moral questions involved in this particular debate. -- death penalty ; deterrence …

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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance

Dur, Robert A. J.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 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...

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Environmental Crimes

Faure, Michael G. - 2010

This chapter deals with the application of economic theories of criminal law to environmental pollution. The chapter starts by addressing why environmental pollution needs to be enforced at all by using the criminal law. Attention is also paid to the question whether in certain circumstances...

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The Effect of Type-1 Error on Deterrence

Lando, Henrik - 2020

deterrence by the same amount. We demonstrate that this view is generally incorrect both when the court's error concerns the …-1 error exerts a lesser effect on deterrence than type-2 error. Moreover, we demonstrate that type-1 error may lead a … error, whether or not it is defined as conditional on adjudication, therefore does not exert any direct effect on deterrence …

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Wage Theft Criminalization

Levin, Benjamin - 2020

Over the past decade, workers' rights activists and legal scholars have embraced the language of “wage theft” in describing the abuses of the contemporary workplace. The phrase invokes a certain moral clarity: theft is wrong. The phrase is not merely a rhetorical flourish. Increasingly, it...

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Fighting Mobile Crime

Crinò, Rosario - 2019

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back....

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When Wage Theft Was a Crime in Canada, 1935-1955

Tucker, Eric - 2017

In recent years the term “wage theft” has been widely used to describe the phenomenon of employers not paying their workers the wages they are owed. While the term has great normative weight, it is rarely accompanied by calls for employers literally to be prosecuted under the criminal law....

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