Law Enforcement and Public Opinion

Law Enforcement and Public Administration

Public health and law enforcement: future directions.

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL LAW Steven

This paper contains the chapters on public enforcement of law and on criminal law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). By public law enforcement is meant the use of public law enforcement agents -such as police, tax inspectors, regulatory personnel -to enforce legal rules. A number of important dimensions of public law enfor...

The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law*

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 violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of the analysis addresses the following basic questions: Should the form of the sanction imposed on a liable party be a fine, an imprisonment term, or a combination of ...

Collaboration Between Public Heath and Law Enforcement: The Constitutional Challenge

n their article “Collaboration between Public Health and Law Enforcement: New Paradigms and Partnerships for Bioterrorism Planning and Response,” Butler et al. present a valuable introduction to the practical problems of coordinating public health and criminal law investigations (1). While this problem is not new in public health, the events of September 11, 2001, have given it a special urgenc...