The Herald reports: A high school student wrote a detailed “kill plan” and told his ex to stay away from school on the day he wanted to kill her new boyfriend. But when his plans went awry, the teen instead went to his schoolmate’s home days later, swinging a machete at his victim’s head, slicing…
Home detention for attempted murder
Home detention for attempted murder
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Still under-policed and over-imprisoned
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in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, Gary Becker, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
A new paper, The Injustice of Under-Policing, makes a point that I have been emphasizing for many years, namely, relative to other developed countries the United States is under-policed and over-imprisoned. …the American criminal legal system is characterized by an exceptional kind of under-policing, and a heavy reliance on long prison sentences, compared to other […]
Still under-policed and over-imprisoned
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
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in economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
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