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Revisiting the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Crime: A Global Analysis
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing upon extensive literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers, we hypothesize that FDI inflow represents a double‐edged sword with respect to crime in host countries. On one hand, FDI can contribute to economic growth and social well‐being by infusing capital and knowledge into the host countries, thereby potentially ...
Yuan Chen +3 more
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Crime and punishment: Pakistan's legal failure to account for mental illness. [PDF]
BJPsych Int, 2021 Khan RQ, Khan AM.
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Crime and Punishment. Crime Rates and Prison Population in Europe
, 2021 Beata Gruszczyńska, Marek Gruszczyński
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Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction [PDF]
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime.
Entorf, Horst
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Estimating Treatment Effects With Limited Exogeneity: A Machine Learning Approach to Selection Bias
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel method for estimating treatment effects in cases where prior knowledge of the exogeneity of the treatment variable is limited. We employ a machine learning technique, double selection via Lasso, to identify a robust set of control variables without requiring prior assumptions about their specific identities or ...
Rui Sun, Shiyi Chen
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Crime and punishment with habit formation [PDF]
Moral concepts affect crime supply. This idea is modelled assuming that illegal activities is habit forming. We introduce habits in a intertemporal general equilibrium framework to illegal activities and compare its outcomes with a model without habit ...
Andrade, Joaquim Pinto de +1 more
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ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT ESTABLISHED FOR THE CRIME COMMITTED DURING PROBATION [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2013 Probation represents a measure of trust as far as the convict is concerned and it is ruled by the court for the continuation of the execution of the rest of the punishment without being detained.
CĂTĂLIN ONCESCU
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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A double-edged sword: Benefits and pitfalls of heterogeneous punishment in evolutionary inspection games [PDF]
, 2015 As a simple model for criminal behavior, the traditional two-strategy inspection game yields counterintuitive results that fail to describe empirical data.
Perc, Matjaz, Szolnoki, Attila
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Mental health difficulties in childhood are increasing. Prevention is the only sustainable and ethical public health approach. However, predicting which children are most at‐risk of mental health difficulties prior to symptoms emerging remains elusive.
Emma Butler +3 more
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