An Introduction to Crime & Punishment

An Overview of Crime and Punishment

Juvenile Crime and Punishment:

Over the past twenty years juvenile violent crime rates have increased tremendously. In light of this disturbing trend, this paper examines whether variation in punishment levels has any impact on juvenile violent crime. To examine this relationship I first establish a behavioral model of juvenile crime, from which point I introduce an empirical model and use available data to estimate this mod...

Crime and Uncertain Punishment

Crime and Uncertain Punishment We consider agents in a country in an early stage of transition from a planned to a market economy. As the transition is in progress, the nature of the government’s policies are unknown to the agents. Property rights once held by the state have already been transferred to the agents, with each agent owning one firm. However, the agents are uncertain of the level o...

Crime and Punishment

Crime, Punishment and Treatment

Crime is defined by society, or by representatives of our society, the lawyers, who legally define it. I suppose if we had no lawyers we would have no crime at least we would have no legal definitions, but criminal behavior would still be a major burden. A useful definition of crime is any behavior which is harmful or potentially harmful to other people. It may be divided into at least three ma...