Lawful but awful 'legal corporate crimes'

Jurisprudential Legal Explanation of Confiscation of Property in Drug Crimes

Drug crimes, regardless of the economic consequences, have threatened public and individual health and determined the international community to combat them effectively. Therefore, in the laws in question, confiscation of property is considered as a punishment for criminals of drug crimes; while from a jurisprudential point of view, this punishment has faced challenges. The findings of the pres...

Public Opinion Toward Legal Sanctions for Crimes of Violence

LeGAL DeCISION-MAkING ON CRIMeS involving an alibi

The present study examined the influence of physical evidence in support of an alibi, type of crime, and alibi salaciousness on the verdict, sentencing, and credibility perceptions of 317 undergraduate mock jurors who read fabricated police and court summaries. Alibis substantiated by physical evidence were accompanied by fewer guilty verdicts, higher believability, and more positive character ...

Ownership Structure, Legal Protections and Corporate Governance

This paper surveys the issues and devises an analytical framework for policy makers and policy advisors concerned with corporate governance. The framework takes a functional approach, identifying six functions provided by a governance system. The paper highlights the possibilities and limits to governance reform through the adoption of legal protections and the use of ownership structure. I cau...

More Readers of Gun Magazines But Not More Crimes

We investigate the relationships between gun ownership and murders, reported rapes, and robberies. We proxy gun ownership by the number of subscriptions to the gun magazine Handguns Magazine and accommodate the count nature of our data by analyzing them with a multivariate Poisson-lognormal model. For most of our analyses, we find that the correlation between today’s number of guns and future c...