Does Terrorism Increase Crime? A Cautionary Tale

Crime Prevention: A Cautionary Tale

We know a good deal about the kinds of conditions that promote crime. These include knowledge that criminals tend to come from backgrounds in which they have been exposed to disorganized communities, to dysfunctional and neglectful families, to schools that fail to provide them with successful learning experiences, and to biological challenges that may include neurological abnormalities or nutr...

The E↵ectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror

This paper studies the deterrent e↵ect of criminal enforcement on white-collar criminal activities. Using the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a shock to the FBI’s allocation of investigative resources and priorities, and variations in the Muslim population in the United States as a measure of geographic variations in the shock, I examine two questions: (1) Does the bureau’s shift to counter-terrorism...

Teachers' Perspectives on the Use of Pedometers as Instructional Technology in Physical Education: A Cautionary Tale

(2008). Teachers' perspectives on the use of pedometers as instructional technology in physical education: A cautionary tale.

A cautionary tale on using tumour growth rate to predict survival

A Cautionary Tale of Post-Communist Judicial Empowerment

This article aims to curb the enthusiasm for post-Communist judicial empowerment by showing that sometimes a powerful judiciary can threaten the rule of law. It argues that the powerful Bulgarian Constitutional Court promotes conflict between the executive and the ordinary judiciary. The “war of institutions” has made Bulgaria the poster child for failed judicial reforms among new European Unio...