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Behaviourally informed approach to corporate criminal law: Ethicality as efficiency

open access: yesBergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2022
An extensive body of behavioural evidence suggests that our actions are not primarily steered by threats of sanction but, instead, by morals, habits, and social norms. This proposition applies equally in corporate environments.
Heli Korkka-Knuts
doaj   +1 more source

Community‐engaged crime prevention through environmental design and reductions in violent and firearm crime

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the U.S., crime and violence are concentrated in cities that have lost industry and population due to economic disinvestment and structurally racist policies. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have called for community‐level approaches that reduce violence in these cities by improving unsafe physical environments, increasing ...
Laney A. Rupp   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putting severity of punishment back in the deterrence package [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Studies of criminal deterrence usually show an effect of certainty of punishment but often fail to find an effect of severity. This is a serious threat to the theoretical underpinnings of deterrence theory.
McDonald, Michael D., Mendes, Silvia M.
core   +1 more source

The mediating role of planned behaviour on deterrence initiatives aimed at managing local government workplace compliance

open access: yesSA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2019
Orientation: Compliance culture within the South African local government context is perceived to be critical to sustainable municipality service delivery. Improving compliance culture is therefore important.
Sithenkosi Lungisa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of strategic and deterrence equilibrium by modeling with a Van der Waals gas [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
In this paper we are going to propose a physical model that can represent a simple deterrence equilibrium situation, it is on based theory of unitary rational actors. This theory takes in account that a state is composed of a large number of people and a detailed study of the dynamics of any individual it is impossible.
arxiv  

Reversing the Tao: A Framework for Credible Space Deterrence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis was written to provide the reader with a firm understanding of the realities of the current DoD space deterrence concept, its shortcomings and the threat that these shortcomings pose to the United States and its Allies if a more realistic ...
Stone, Christopher Michael
core   +1 more source

Beyond job‐search theory: A value pluralist approach to conditionality in Australian employment services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the contested impact of financial sanctions on Australian employment services, with government evaluation relying on job‐search theory to justify sanctions while research from sociological and psychological perspectives suggests they exacerbate labour market disadvantages and poverty. The division in perspectives reflects
Simone Casey
wiley   +1 more source

On-Chain Auctions with Deposits [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Second-price auctions with deposits are frequently used in blockchain environments. An auction takes place on-chain: bidders deposit an amount that fully covers their bid (but possibly exceeds it) in a smart contract. The deposit is used as insurance against bidders not honoring their bid if they win.
arxiv  

Conditional relevance of controls: A simultaneous test of the influences of self-control and deterrence on criminal behaviour in the context of Situational Action Theory

open access: yes, 2018
Situational Action Theory includes a series of propositions on the interaction between the moral filter and internal and external controls. These reflections are condensed into the principle of the conditional relevance of controls and the principle of ...
Debbie Schepers, Jost Reinecke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Work incentives in Australia: The distribution of effective marginal tax rates for working‐age Australians in 2023

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Effective marginal tax rates are of interest to policymakers due to the concern that high rates lead to disincentives to work, particularly for secondary earners in couple families and single parents who pay personal income tax and lose government welfare payments as their private income increases.
Ben Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

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