Punishing (Non-)Citizens

Punishing Collective Entities

Punishing greediness in Divide-the-dollar games

Brams and Taylor (1994) presented a version of the Divide-the-dollar game (DD), which they call DD1. DD1 suffers from the following drawback: when each player demands approximately the entire dollar, then if the least greedy player is unique, then this player obtains approximately the entire dollar even if he is only slightly less greedy than the other players. I introduce a parametrized family...

Punishing and abstaining for public goods.

The evolution of cooperation within sizable groups of nonrelated humans offers many challenges for our understanding. Current research has highlighted two factors boosting cooperation in public goods interactions, namely, costly punishment of defectors and the option to abstain from the joint enterprise. A recent modeling approach has suggested that the autarkic option acts as a catalyzer for t...

Punishing Attempted Suicide - Anachronism of Twentieth Century

"Any act which takes a person further from life and nearer to death has been regarded as felony" was the logic of the medieval Europe. Suicide was punishable in Europe till the end of 18th century. Following the French revolution of 1789, attempted suicide was abolished as an offence in France, and soon other countries of Europe followed suit, and the recent addition to this list is England whi...

Punishing Disposition: Sting Operations on the Internet

Given the pervasiveness of illicit pornography on the Internet, pedophiles can easily and quickly access the objects of their sexual preferences, utilizing the unlimited potential of the Internet to lure an unprecedented number of victims. Meanwhile, unrestrained access to supposedly prohibited sites also makes it possible for law enforcement authorities to conduct sting operations designed to ...