Hostage Uses Pizza Hut App to Order a Police Rescue popularmechanics.com/default/a15405… http://t.co/gxFq0zqBCn—
Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) June 10, 2015
Hostage Uses Pizza Hut App to Order a Police Rescue
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, entrepreneurial alertness
Prison incarceration rates by race and education
12 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: compensating differentials, crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, racial discrimination, racism
Male African American high school dropouts facing a nearly 70% cumulative risk of imprisonment by their early 30s. However, the increase in incarceration rates among high school graduates appeared to be much the same for both blacks and whites.
This hints that racism is not as good explanatory of high rates of African-American male incarceration. Police do not know whether the people they arrest have high school diplomas or not but most of the people they arrest are high school dropouts. This suggests that the opportunity cost and rewards of crime over lawful occupational pursuits is a driver of the supply of crime.
There was only 1 crime for which sentences went up a lot in the USA
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
Striking that there was only 1 crime for which sentences went up a lot: Murder. A bad thing? vox.com/2015/5/7/85653… http://t.co/yTOXPJFT3O—
Kay Hymowitz (@KayHymowitz) May 07, 2015
Deranged conspiracy theories versus the domestic political reality of the Indonesian resumption of executions
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: Australia, capital punishment, conspiracy theories, crime and punishment, expressive voting, Indonesia, left-wing condescension, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The Australian human rights commissioner has put forward a bizarre conspiracy theory linking the recent execution of two drug traffickers in Indonesia to the Australian policy of turning back refugee boats.
Ignorance and condescension of Indonesian domestic politics is prevalent among the left wing elite in Australia.
Indonesia started executions again under the new president after a long hiatus and in particular for death sentences for narcotics drug trafficking. Indonesia had an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty between 2008 and 2012 but resumed executions in 2013. Executions were infrequent.
The new president was recently elected on a platform of being tough on crime and in particular on drug trafficking and the 64 drug traffickers currently on death row:
[The clemency requests] are not on my table yet. But I guarantee that there will be no clemency for convicts who committed narcotics-related crimes
Secondly, making concessions to Australia does not win votes in Indonesia which is a democracy. Thirdly, a range of foreigners are on death row in Indonesia. The best way to have kept those two Australians alive was to say nothing so hopefully they are not moved up in the queue to spite Australia to win domestic political points.
Fourthly, someone of her legal training should be better at spinning conspiratorially yarns than this particularly weak work of imagination.
1/3rd of mass shootings ended when members of the public subdued or shot the perpetrator
28 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, gun control
US imprisonment rates by race and education
18 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, imprisonment rates
Public confidence in the police in America
14 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, police, voter demographics
How much is your hacked data worth?
28 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, electronic crime, hacking
Interesting overview of how much your stolen data is worth: informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations…. Source: @infobeautiful http://t.co/aTc9KOPpCm—
Matt Berryman (@mattberryman) October 09, 2014
The crime rate is certainly down in America
28 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
Swedish cops on vacation break up NY subway fight
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, law enforcement, New York City, police, Sweden
“We’re no heroes, just tourists.” nyp.st/1PnVhkt http://t.co/EIGtwlajzQ—
New York Post (@nypost) April 23, 2015
via Swedish cops on vacation break up subway fight | New York Post.
Lincoln’s assassins were still at large, this day 1865
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, crime and punishment, political assassinations
Wanted poster for murderer of President Lincoln, still at large, 150 years ago this month: #LOC http://t.co/IRCjup0RU0—
Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 15, 2015
DNA and death row exonerations
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: capital punishment, crime and punishment, definitely
The racial demographics of police arrest rates in the USA
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, police misconduct, racial discrimination
England riots culprits jailed for 1,800 years, which deterred crime
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, London riots
The level of lawlessness was shocking and wholly inexcusable. The imposition of severe sentences, intended to provide both punishment and deterrence, must follow…
The context hugely aggravates the seriousness of each individual offence … the sheer numbers involved may have led some of the offenders to believe that they were untouchable and would escape detection…
When there is wanton and vicious violence of gross degree the court is not concerned with whether it originates from gang rivalry or from political motives. It is the degree of mob violence that matters and the extent to which the public peace is broken.”
The Lord Chief Justice Judge
The response of the criminal fraternity in London to the sentences handed out during the London riots was very business like. Offending for those particular sentences dropped. Criminals substituted to other forms of crime to pursue their chosen occupation as a criminal in light of the changed incentives:
…a significant drop in riot crimes across London in the six months after the riots, consistent with a deterrence effect from the tougher sentencing. More evidence of general deterrence comes from the observation that crime also fell in the post‐riot aftermath in areas where rioting did not take place.
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