In repeated matching games trigger strategies and simple optimal penal codes are not equilibria unless strong informational assumptions are made. If only local information is used by the strategy and other weak information ‡ows are allowed both strategies fail.

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Dr. Hermann Mannheim, with a preface by Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders. Allen & Unwin. 1939. pp. 228. 7s. 6d. This book is based on a course of public lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. Professor Carr-Saunders points ?ut that for the constructive development of Penal Reform we need, firstly, accurate systematic sociological and psychological s...

Note. This original form of this rebuttal was submitted to Science on 3 March 2017 (limited to 300 words as per Science editorial policy) but rejected on 13 March 2017. Herein, we elaborate on our original Science submission in order to more fully address the issue without the length limitations. This rebuttal is followed by the list of the signatories who supported our original submission.

The paper suggests a framework for analyzing democracies’ policies towards renegade regimes, i.e. regimes whose defining feature is regarded to be norm-breaking (e.g. Iran or North Korea). The paper argues that policies towards renegade regimes are heavily influenced by domestic cultures of control because the problem of recurrent violations of community norms as posed by renegade regimes to th...

Existing research largely ignores Black support for punitive policies that target group members, even as this challenges expectations of in-group favoritism and solidarity. The current fills gap by leveraging a familiar concept: “the politics respectability.” Building on historical qualitative accounts worldview, which focuses the behavior I develop social psychological framework to understand ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine motivational correlates of mentally tough behaviours among adolescent tennis players. DESIGN Two-phase study, involving the development of an informant-rated measure of mentally tough behaviours, followed by a cross-sectional survey including athlete and parent assessments of study variables. METHODS In Phase One, 17 adult, high-performanc...

We analyze how economic shocks and policies a¤ect the intensity of social con‡ict. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer reduce con‡ict. In our model, positive shocks to labor intensive industries diminish social con‡ict, while positive shocks to capital intensive industries increase it. The key requirement is that appropriation activities be more labor intensive than the e...

In this paper I seek to present a working hypothesis be eventually developed in future contribution, namely that the COVID-19 crisis exposed some problematic behaviours evocative of an authoritarian ethos on part both public authorities and citizens which suggest penal populist attitude might now or even embedded Romanian legal culture. Specifically, will organize contribution as follows: first...

Research shows that prison inmates have a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS than the general population, prompting widespread measures aimed at diagnosing, quarantining, and treating inmates. Yet, recent scholarship has linked the release inmates to an increase in the HIV incidence rate of various communities. In this paper we explore the disjuncture between institutional policies and potenti...