Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions

Studying Discretion in the Processes that Generate Criminal Justice Sanctions

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Faking It: Criminal Sanctions and the Cost of Computer Intrusions

Thoroughly and consistently calculating losses from computer intrusions is a difficult endeavor because security incidents are characterized by intangible harms like interference with system availability and interference with the integrity of data. These harms can be difficult to translate into monetary terms. More easily measured are labor and hardware costs associated with repairing and resto...

"Unnatural deaths," criminal sanctions, and medical quality improvement in Japan.

Exercising FOREIGN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION over State officials

Our article examines the extent to which state officials are subject to prosecution in foreign domestic courts for international crimes.  We consider the different types of immunity that international law accords to state officials, the reasons for the conferment of this immunity and whether they apply in cases in which it is alleged that the official has committed an international crime. ...

Managing Reputation with Litigation: Why Legal Sanctions Can Work Better than Market Sanctions

A long-lived firm sells a good to a sequence of consumers, where the good’s quality imperfectly depends on the firm’s unobservable e§ort. To solve the moral hazard problem, the firm can promise to pay damages (formal sanctions) or facilitate reputational punishment (informal sanctions). Formal sanctions engender litigation costs and possible court error while informal sanctions involve ine¢cien...