Punishment and Crime in Scandinavia, 1750–2008

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 and Punishment in Britain

to date. The task he sets himself, j! describe the penal system in Britai" in theory, law and practice, is a' enormous one and, in so far as tb'| is possible within the covers of of1 volume, he succeeds. What is oUl standing is his approach: instead the usual airy-fairy theorising, 1 which criminology all too readi' lends itself, Dr. Walker introduce scientific methodology. Not only thj but whe...

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...