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Not Yet Legal and in Prison? [PDF]
, 2016 The United States is the only industrialized country that sentences individuals to spend the remainder of their lives in prison for a crime they committed before the age of eighteen.
Saldivar, Araseli
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The Perception of Small Crime [PDF]
Violations of social norms can be costly to society and they are, in the case of large crimes, followed by prosecution. Minor misbehaviors — small crimes — do not usually result in legal proceedings.
Douhou, S. +2 more
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Four Senses of the Public Law-Private Law Distinction [PDF]
, 1986 Perhaps the most useful function for a foreword to a symposium on the Limits of Public Law would be to explain what is meant by public law. If there is more than one sense of a distinction between public law and private law, identifying which ...
Barnett, Randy E
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US State Policy Contexts and Mental Health Among Working‐Age Adults
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points States’ overarching policy contexts are a meaningful yet overlooked predictor of adults’ mental health, with more conservative contexts associated with worse mental health outcomes over a 30‐year period. Counterfactual analyses suggest that widespread policy shifts could meaningfully alter the national prevalence of mental distress ...
ILIYA GUTIN +4 more
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Economic crime, tax evasion and gender. Evidence from a developing country
Revista CriminalidadOur attention has been attracted by the proposition that the gender and criminal behaviour of perpetrators of economic and tax crimes in the context of a developing country such as Serbia could be explained by the secondary data set.
Goranka Knežević, Vladan Pavlović
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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire? [PDF]
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime ...
Mikael Priks, Panu Poutvaara
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Libertarianism: an Extremely Short Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 (Revised 31-10-17) This is only one view on the topic; other views may be rather different. It starts at the more philosophical end and then becomes more empirical, and possibly easier to understand, as it ...
Lester, J. C.
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US State Policy Index for Population Health Analyses
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Changes in states’ policy contexts since the 1980s may help explain why mortality rates among working‐age adults have risen and become more unequal across geographic areas. Investigating this pressing issue requires a new, industry‐standard measure of those contexts.
JENNIFER KARAS MONTEZ +2 more
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The Aggrieved Subject: Culture Wars and Recognition Rights
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrew Fagan
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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