Asymmetric sanctions and corruption: Theory and practice in China
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Asymmetric punishment of partners in crime, intended to incentivize whistle‐blowing, may increase detection and deterrence. The idea is age‐old but its use against corruption is not frequent. We study a 1997 Chinese reform that strengthened such asymmetries for some forms of bribery.
Maria Perrotta Berlin +3 more
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The Psychology of Testimony and the Interrogation of Children: Contesting the Expertise of Teachers and Female Police Officers, circa 1922-1944. [PDF]
NTMSchlicht L.
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Case Report: Death penalty versus indefinite imprisonment in Japan: a case note of two court judgments involving autism spectrum disorder and autistic traits. [PDF]
Front PsychiatryKashiwagi H, Hirabayashi N.
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Shifting the Balance of Power: Prosecutorial Discretion Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]
, 2011 Parsons, Elizabeth A.
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Extreme Risk Protection Orders as Criminal Deflection and Diversion. [PDF]
InquirySwanson JW, Bonnie RJ.
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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Community as the key to socio-education: an analysis of challenges and practices in migratory contexts. [PDF]
Front SociolSantoro M +4 more
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Of custom, treaties, scholars and the gavel: the impact of the International Criminal Tribunals on the ICRC customary law study [PDF]
, 2006 Cryer, Robert
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