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Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Jennifer Pan (Stanford University), Xu Xu (Princeton University), & Yiqing Xu (Stanford University) have posted Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Non-Political Crimes to Undermine Dissent on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Why do authoritarian regimes charge political opponents with non-political...
Blog: Verfassungsblog
Scandalous arrests of judges taking millions in bribes continue to make headlines. For purging the judiciary from corruption, vetting the integrity of judges through internationally supported commissions has become one of the most promising tools. In July 2023, the ECtHR has upheld the dismissal of yet another prominent judge – who had served, both, at the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Albania (Thanza v. Albania). While it is obvious that a judge should be dismissed for engaging in organised crime, this case may be the first in the world to raise another, rather unusual question: Can a judge be dismissed simply for having contact with organised crime, even if he has never committed any offence?
Blog: Conversable Economist
In public opinion polls, one of the primary concerns about rising levels of immigration is the extent to which it might increase crime rates. But several puzzles arise here. The evidence that immigration systematically leads to an increase in local crime rates turns out to be meager. However, Olivier Marie and Paolo Pinotti explore these … Continue reading Puzzles about Immigration and Crime
The post Puzzles about Immigration and Crime first appeared on Conversable Economist.
Blog: Reason.com
Canadian Justice Minister Arif Virani, who is also the nation's attorney general, says it is very important that the government have the power to punish someone it believes might commit a hate crime even if that person actually hasn't committed a crime. An online harms bill proposed by the government would give it such powers.…
Blog: Social Europe
Protests in Ireland against the housing of single male asylum-seekers highlight the role played by security in far-right discourse.
Blog: Social Europe
The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Anton Moiseienko (ANU College of Law) has posted Crime and Sanctions: Beyond Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool (German Law Journal (Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Targeted sanctions, namely asset freezes and travel bans, are no longer the...
Blog: The Strategist
Getting caught up in geopolitical competition may seem uncomfortable enough for Pacific island countries. What's making things worse is that outside powers' struggle to influence them is weakening their resistance to organised crime emanating from ...
Blog: AIER | American Institute for Economic Research
"When a government policy is enacted, it often seeks to change individual behavior. But human beings are clever and will often respond to policy initiatives in ways that either counteract the initial policy's goals or create new problems in other spheres." ~ Anthony Gill
Blog: Chris Blattman
NPR's Hidden Brain podcast on violence from Monrovia to Chicago, and an amazing new way to stop it
The post Predicting and preventing violent crime before it happens appeared first on Chris Blattman.
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
Violence and crime contribute to one of Latin America's most pressing social problems. This book provides an overview of this issue, while establishing the broader contexts of how it came to be.
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Janny Leung (University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Arts, School of English; Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Liberal Arts) has posted The Audience Problem in Online Speech Crimes (Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law, 9(2), 189-234) on...
Blog: Blog Post Archive - Public Policy Institute of California
At the inaugural hearing of the Assembly Select Committee on Retail Theft, PPIC policy director and senior fellow Magnus Lofstrom discussed trends in shoplifting and other offenses, including variations across the state.
Blog: Social Policy
For well over 200 years, imprisonment has been one of society's preferred punishments. But is it effective? Well, that depends on the goal. It was once a priority that punishments be "humane." That priority underpinned punishment's move toward imprisonment and away from torture, the death penalty and other grueling alternatives. But pinning punishment to humanity … Continued