Organized crime, corruption and punishment [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2005 We analyze an oligopoly model in which differentiated criminal organizations globally compete on criminal activities and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When bribing costs are low, that is badly-paid and dishonest law enforcers work in a weak governance environment, and the rents from criminal activity are sufficiently high, we find ...
Kugler, Maurice +2 more
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Crime and Punishment: A Rethink [PDF]
Philosophies, 2023 Incarceration remains the foremost form of sentence for serious crimes in Western democracies. At the same time, the management of prisons and of the prison population has become a major real-world challenge, with growing concerns about overcrowding, the
Ognjen Arandjelović
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Érico Veríssimo lecteur de Dostoïevski. Crime et châtiment, une source de Olhai os lírios do campo [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2014 Érico Veríssimo, Reader of Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment, a source of Olhai os lírios do campo. We analyze in this article Érico Veríssimo’s Olhai os lírios do campo, basing ourselves on the study of sources.
Samuel Bidaud
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Can criminology sway the public? How empirical findings about deterrence affect public punishment preferences [PDF]
Crime ScienceBackground setting Punitive approaches to deter offending remain popular despite limited evidence of their effectiveness. This study investigated what effect presenting empirical criminological findings about the effectiveness of deterrence to a general ...
Brendan Rose +3 more
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Crime, punishment and social norms [PDF]
, 2005 We analyze the interplay between economic incentives and social norms when individuals decide whether or not to engage in criminal activity. More specifically, we assume that there is a social norm against criminal activity and that deviations from the ...
Jörgen W. Weibull, Édgar Villa
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Fundamentals, principle and practice of purposeful Penalization model [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2020 A review of criminal law clearly reveals that in Iran's legal system, there is no particular logic of penalization, and in these laws, many inappropriate penalties exist in terms of type, degree and inefficiency in achieving the goals.
mohammadali hajidehabadi, ehsan salimi
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The Offence of Acid Attack in the Context of New Legal Developments, With Special Reference to the Iranian “law on The Aggravation of Punishment of Acid Attack and Support of its Victims”, 2019 [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2021 Acid attack, as an anti-social behaviour, is a serious crime with severe punishment under legal systems.The severe damage caused to the public order, and the harm caused to the victims necessitates severe punishment imposed on the the perpetrator and ...
mohammad ashoori, negin haghighat
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Notes on law and police occupational culture in Brazil’s Military Polices
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2021 This research discusses the relations between law and police culture in the context of Brazil’s Military Polices, aiming to contribute both to discussions about these corporations’ non-compliance with legal standards and to socio-legal knowledge on ...
Julia Maia Goldani
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An experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis [PDF]
, 2008 Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability of punishment.
Hörisch, Hannah, Strassmair, Christina
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Summary of the 2nd International Online Conference “Crime and Punishment: Current State of Research” (Moscow, February 28 – March 2, 2023) [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2023 The summary is compiled from the abstracts and summaries provided by the participants of the 2nd International Online Conference “Crime and Punishment: Current State of Research.” The conference is part of the work on the next issue of the series ...
Tatiana A. Kasatkina
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