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Social welfare and severity of criminal punishment
Правоприменение, 2019 The subject. The article is devoted to the correlation between the level of social welfare and the degree of criminal punishment’s repressiveness.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that improving the social welfare increases ...
Oleg N. Bibik
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan +3 more
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Punishment despite Reasonable Doubt – A Public Goods Experiment with Uncertainty over Contributions [PDF]
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior.
Kristoffel Grechenig +2 more
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On Some Problems of Criminal Law Regulation of the Situation Change in Russia, Mongolia and China
Vestnik Omskoj Ûridičeskoj Akademii, 2013 The article deals with the analysis of the criminal law regulations in the Russian Federation, Mongolia, specifying the cause for release from criminal responsibility and punishment in consequence of some situation changes.
Kuznetsov A. V., Sun Yingchun
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Autonomia – przymus – granice karania (uwagi na tle filozofii Josepha Raza)
Acta Iuris Stetinensis, 2016 This paper suggests that Raz’s concept of autonomy can be used in the philosophy of criminal law. Certainly, criminal law has limits. ‘Harm principle’ is one of the most important proposals for principled limits to the criminal law ...
Michał Peno
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
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Persistent punishment : users views of short prison sentences [PDF]
, 2013 Semi-structured interviews were conducted of 22 prisoners to gather information about the characteristic features of short prison sentences. Themes raised in comments included: the frequency and quality of sentences, addiction, family, and penal ...
Armstrong, Sarah +3 more
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SAGE Open, 2016 Although a sizable number of studies have gathered information from college students regarding their varying degrees of support for capital punishment, few have explored the underlying rationales behind these students’ death penalty support or opposition.
Raj Sethuraju +2 more
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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Corporate criminal law and organization incentives: A managerial perspective [PDF]
Corporate criminal liability puts a serious challenge to the economic theory of enforcement. Are corporate crimes different from other crimes? Are these crimes best deterred by punishing individuals, punishing corporations, or both?
Nuno Garoupa
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