Commitment as "Delinquent"?

[Delinquent adolescent as seen by a psychiatrist].

Gang Membership, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior

Youth gangs are on the rise. Today they threaten virtually every major city, many small communities, and even rural areas. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to helping communities overcome this problem, and an essential first step is understanding the factors that contribute to the growth of youth gangs and the relationship of gang membership to deli...

Public investment as commitment

Should public assets such as infrastructure, education, and the environment earn the same return as private investments? We consider if time-inconsistent decisionmakers can gain from institutions that enforce cost-benefit rules on large projects that influence the economy as a whole. Long-term public investments provide commitment to current preferences, leading to investment biases in such ass...

Delinquent Boys

The theme of this book is that delinquency must be understood as a persistent subculture within the larger society of big cities.

Emission Cap Commitment versus Emission Intensity Commitment as Self-Regulation

We compare emission cap commitment that restricts total emissions and emission intensity commitment that restricts emissions per unit of output as measures of self-regulation. The monopolist chooses either emission cap commitment or emission intensity commitment and sets the target level under the constraint that the resulting emissions do not exceed the upper limit. We find that profit-maximiz...