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Irrationality and the Criminal Sanction

Supreme Court Economic Review, 2004
In this article, Professor O'Neill examines the interaction between cognitive limits and criminal sanctions by reasoning that perfectly rational decisions are inhibited because of inherent biological limitations. O'Neill explains that rationality must be understood both in subjective and objective ways.
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Accuracy in Criminal Sanctions

2012
This Chapter examines the law and economics of accuracy in criminal sanctions. It suggests that the law’s ability to impose sanctions that are accurate on an individualized level is constrained by three information problems: (1) criminals’ lack of information, ex ante, concerning victim harms; (2) courts’ lack of information, ex post, concerning harms;
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Cocaine and the Criminal Sanction

Journal of Drug Issues, 1977
The criminal law is concerned with the pursuit of human objectives through the various structures and methods of social organization. Many commands that are embodied in the criminal law appear as prohibitions, which can be satisfied by inaction. “Do not use dangerous drugs” is an example.
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Heritage and Criminal Sanctions

Criminal law is an important but under-discussed component of heritage law. Crimes in this area often involve damage to and destruction of public or private property, property that also happens to be the shared cultural heritage of a group of people or of all humanity, causing demonstrable harm.
De Jong, Anna M., Iyer, Apsara, Yates, Donna   +2 more
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Criminology and Criminalization: Defiance and the Science of the Criminal Sanction*

International Annals of Criminology, 1993
Summary When one speaks of penal « inflation » and of the danger that the penal system is losing its role in the regulation of human conduct, one should not be concerned with the severity of the intervention, but with its excessive use, since it is that which creates an attitude of defiance with regard to the law. Criminalisation only
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The Limits of the Criminal Sanction

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1969
Abraham S. Blumberg, Herbert L. Packer
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Cartel enforcement in China: monetary or criminal sanctions?

2014
In recent years, criminalizing business conduct has attracted the attention of policy makers around the world. ‘Economic crime’ is, however, not a new concept; dating back to 1890, the Sherman Act in the US has already defi ned illegal cartel conduct as a crime.
Faure, M.G., Ma, J.
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Interplay Between European Union Criminal Law and Administrative Sanctions: Constituent Elements of Transposing Punitive Administrative Sanctions Into National Law

New Journal of European Criminal Law, 2022
Markus Karner
exaly  

Time-Consistent Criminal Sanctions [PDF]

, 1993
A classic argument in the theory of crime is that optimal enforcement policy should involve maximal sanctions combined with minimal detection costs. Yet this is rarely observed in the real world. We argue that reson for this has to do with the time inconsistency of such a policy.
Robin W. Boadway, Nicolas Marceau
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Criminal Sanctions

2021
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