Source: Financial market wrongdoing: Fines vs reputational sanctions | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal
Financial market wrongdoing: Fines vs reputational sanctions
30 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: crime and punishment, signalling
@AmyAdamsMP 3 strikes deters many crimes but with a twist @dbseymour @greencatherine
17 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: career criminals, criminal deterrence, habitual criminals, Leftover Left, marginal deterrence, offsetting behaviour, primate punishment, unintended consequences
A card-carrying Leftist would not know what to do with this study by Radha Iyengar. In their life mission of excusing criminals, they could bait and switch. Quickly acknowledged the results of the study, a massive reduction in serious crime, then go on as fast as possible to the unintended consequences on marginal deterrence. 3rd strike offenders tend to commit more violent crimes because they have less to lose. That is basic applied price theory.
Source: Do three-strikes laws make criminals more violent?
Sadly, card-carrying leftists denied themselves this argument when arguing against 3 strikes when the laws before Parliament. You have to admit the deterrence works in order to argue that 3 strikes and you are out screws up marginal deterrence.
To be fair, the Left did not do that fully. The standard argument against life without parole is that these prisoners will have nothing to lose and will be difficult for the prison guards to manage. That is, life without parole screws up marginal deterrence even among hardened criminals.
Crime Deterrence: Evidence From the London 2011 Riots
10 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Mentally ill shot by US police by threat level: January – February 2016
07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, mental illness, police killings, the and order
Unfortunately for all concerned, most of the mentally ill shot this month by police was the result of an impossible dilemma. They were either attacking police or were armed.
Source: Investigation: People shot and killed by police this year – Washington Post.
Blacks shot by US police by threat level: January – February 2016
07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, police killings
Shot by US police by threat level, 1 January – 5 March 2016 – corrected
06 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA
Once again, few are shot by police if they are unarmed, much less with their hands in the air and not offering resistance. A leading cause of death of unarmed civilians is stray bullets. The lesson there is do not travel in cars or live with armed criminals.
Source: Investigation: People shot and killed by police this year – Washington Post.
What animals are poached where?
05 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime
The anti-hunting choir has a lot to answer for. #auspol http://t.co/2FGgC11VZp—
David Leyonhjelm (@DavidLeyonhjelm) August 17, 2015
A brave cashier fights off an armed robber in Georgia, US
04 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of crime, law and economics
Yezhov’s ratio as the inspiration for modern witch-hunts
01 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the deadliest period of Stalin’s Great Purge.
Charges following fatal and serious injury New Zealand police crashes, 2003 – 2008
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: criminal deterrence, law and order, police chases, police killings, road safety
Source: Rodney Hide, “Pursuit culture skews police priorities”, National Business Review, 19 February 2016, p.28.
Deaths and serious injuries in New Zealand police chases, 2003 – 2008
22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: criminal deterrence, law and order, police chases, police killings
Rodney Hide found that one in four New Zealand police chases ends in a crash. Of the 137 police pursuits that ended in death or serious injury between 2003 and 2008 there are 9 violence charges. Six were for manslaughter – all caused by crashes that ended the chase. There was also one charge of murder relating to the crash at the end of the chase. No violence charges arose from information known at the time of the start of the police chase. There was ambiguous information about a charge of kidnapping after a police chase. I could not determine if this kidnapping was known at the time the police chase started and therefore was its motive.
Source: Rodney Hide, “Pursuit culture skews police priorities”, National Business Review, 19 February 2016, p.28.
In all, 13 of the 137 police chases were motivated by the fleeing driver having committed a crime. The most serious of these was burglary. Rodney Hide also found that between 2005 and 2008 there are an average of 182 police chases a month.
I am all for police chasing kidnappers and armed criminals brandishing their weapons. As for the rest, they are not serious offenders. Chasing them puts the public at risk. Most of the fleeing drivers and their passengers are enthusiastic applicants for the Darwin awards.
Worldwide map of organized crime
18 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: organised crime
@RusselNorman @JanLogie #AirPollution in NZ & abroad @TransportBlog
16 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, environmental economics
The lack of celebration of the low levels of air pollution in New Zealand by Greenpeace, the Greens and environmentalists can only be explained by mass kidnapping. Otherwise they would be dancing in the streets. We pray for their early release from their outrageous captivity by mystery hostage-takers.
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