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Is travel actually risky? A study of situational causes of victimization

open access: yesCrime Science, 2018
Objective We present a first test using a smartphone time use survey app for whether the risk of criminal victimization is higher while traveling than during other activities, and assess risk heterogeneity between public transport, private transport by ...
Stijn Ruiter, Wim Bernasco
doaj   +1 more source

Verifying Policy Enforcers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Policy enforcers are sophisticated runtime components that can prevent failures by enforcing the correct behavior of the software. While a single enforcer can be easily designed focusing only on the behavior of the application that must be monitored, the effect of multiple enforcers that enforce different policies might be hard to predict.
Riganelli, O   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Evolutionary Norm Enforcement [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Applying an indirect evolutionary approach with endogenous preference formation, we show that a legal system can induce players to reward trust even if material incentives dictate to exploit trust. By analyzing the crowding out or crowding in of trustworthiness implied by various verdict rules, we can assess how a court influences the share of kept ...
Güth, Werner, Ockenfels, Axel
openaire   +6 more sources

Facts About Human Trafficking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Defines human trafficking and explains the United States’ efforts to limit it worldwide, with special reference to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 and 2003, which provides tools for the U.S.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Pharmacovigilance in Israel – tools, processes, and actions

open access: yesIsrael Journal of Health Policy Research, 2017
Background Due to the limited safety data available at the time that a new medication is first marketed, it is essential to continue the collection and monitoring of safety data about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) during the medication’s life cycle. This
Eyal Schwartzberg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Annual Report, FY 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The Iowa Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) was created by an act of the Iowa legislature in 1967 with its purpose being to upgrade law enforcement to professional status.

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Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper investigates how the enforcement of labor regulation affects firm size and other firm characteristics in Brazil. We explore firm level data on employment, capital, and output, city level data on economic characteristics and new administrative ...
Acemoglu   +28 more
core   +1 more source

Competition law litigation in the UK courts: a study of all cases 2005-2008- Part I [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
It is clear from a cursory examination of the academic literature in the field that private enforcement is an established, well-developed and vibrant mode of enforcement of US anti trust law, constituting the preponderance of anti trust enforcement ...
Rodger, Barry
core   +1 more source

Booze, Bars, and Bystander Behavior: People who Consumed Alcohol Help Faster in the Presence of Others.

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
People help each other less often and less quickly when bystanders are present. In this paper, we propose that alcohol consumption could attenuate or reverse this so-called bystander effect.
Marco eVan Bommel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

CYCLICAL TAX ENFORCEMENT [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, 2020
We wonder whether tax enforcement varies along the economic cycle and aim at answering that question from a positive perspective by means of survey data for the Spanish case (1994–2015). According to a fiscal capacity argument, tax enforcement might be stronger in times of crisis (counter‐cyclical), but if the tax administration prioritizes taxpayers ...
Durán-Cabré, JM   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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