This paper reviews competition policies in Chile. It argues that competition policy should strive to reduce entry, fixed and variable costs where that is technically feasible; reduce the costs of reallocating resources across firms and sectors; and foster tough price competition. It also shows that reducing concentration is the wrong policy goal because tougher price competition will increase e...

Numerous scholars have described how the ‘war on drugs’ has played a central role in US penal change, especially its racialized impact. Yet there remain aspects of this ‘war’ that are under-explored in punishment and society scholarship. This article delineates five distinct modes by which the contemporary regulation of drugs in the USA speaks to penal change, and in so doing suggests that its ...

Revisiting Penal Substitution Kevin D. Kennedy Assistant Professor of Theology Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 2001 W. Seminary Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76115 Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. Evangelicals, in their preaching as well as their worship, have recognized that the cross of Christ is central to the life of the beli...

With fiscal year 2007 well under way, we write to report on the status of our budget for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). As a result of a Congressional joint resolution, the NHLBI received an allocation of $2 918 808 000, which represents an increase of 1% over the comparable figure for fiscal year 2006. The NHLBI has a longstanding and powerful commitment to preserve and...

Oh to be in Grendon now that group therapy's there. Frank Norman's book, sub-titled 'Reform of the Penal System', is not just a plea for psychiatric treatment of offenders and praise for Britain's first psychiatric prison, Grendon Underwood. But the mood is captured in the final chapter where he writes: 'Quite simply, in Sweden, the penal authorities take a far more enlightened view of criminal...

Living in a forensic hospital for the last 38 years, Josefa da Silva is the longest female inhabitant surviving the penal and psychiatric regime in Brazil. This paper analyses dossier, judicial proceedings, interviews and photographs about her. The psychiatric report is the key component of the medical and penal doubling of criminal insanity. Twelve psychiatric reports illustrate three time fra...

This paper extends the political agency approach to an environment in which voting may be divided between informed and instrumental, informed and ‘expressive’ and uninformed due to ‘rational irrationality’. It constructs a model where politicians may be good, bad or populist. Initially the existence of only good and populist politicians is assumed and the incentives for good politicians to pool...

Reform of the parole system has emerged as cause célèbre a resurgent law and order politics. Successive governments have seized upon symbolic power to demonstrate ‘toughness’ with respect violent sexual offending, express solidarity victims crime reaffirm populist credo that purportedly stands in opposition an unaccountable out touch penal elite. Published March 2022, Ministry Justice Root Bran...

In repeated normal-form games, simple penal codes (Abreu 1986, 1988) permit an elegant characterization of the set of subgame-perfect outcomes. We show that the logic of simple penal codes fails in repeated extensive-form games. We provide two examples illustrating that a subgame-perfect outcome may be supported only by a profile with the property that the continuation play after a deviation is...