This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental
agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction …

This chapter reviews empirical studies of criminal punishment and the criminal justice
system by economists. Since the modern exposition of the economic model of criminal …

Law and Economics (2-downloads) Page 1 SIXTH EDITION Law& Economics ROBERT
COOTER University of California, Berkeley THOMAS ULEN University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign …

To be effective in lowering crime and creating secure communities, the police must be able
to elicit cooperation from community residents. Security cannot be produced by either the …

For the past several decades, the deterrence of crime has been a centerpiece of criminal law
reform. Lawmakers have sought to optimize the control of crime by devising a penalty-setting …

The rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a society's success in
two of its most fundamental functions: doing justice and protecting citizens from crime …

Long before the US Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976, proponents of the
death penalty claimed that executions save lives by deterring would-be murderers from …

Motivated by recent developments in cyberwarfare, we study deterrence in a world where
attacks cannot be perfectly attributed to attackers. In the model, each of attackers may attack …

Research suggests that people of all demographics have nuanced and sophisticated
notions of justice. The core of those judgments is often intuition rather than reason. Should …

Overbreadth in criminal liability rules, especially in federal law, is abundant and much
lamented. Overbreadth is avoidable if it results from normative mistakes about how much …