Title of dissertation: EXAMINING GENERAL DETERRENCE USING DATA FROM THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Sarah J. Greenman, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Raymond Paternoster Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice To date, research studies have found only mild support for classic deterrence theory with the greatest support for increased certainty, little support ...

Employing Bourdieu’s practice theory, this paper explores factors that influence corporate executives’ behaviour towards governance regulation. Drawing insights from a weak institutional environment (Nigeria) and relying on qualitative research methodology (semi-structured interviews with 31 executives), uncovers how nine nuanced situational cultural field determine regulatory response to the s...

The text and legislative history of the Sentencing Reform Act [SRA], reviewed in Chapter One, make clear that the SRA aimed to increase the certainty and severity of punishment by eliminating parole and increasing sentencing severity for some crimes. Congress instructed the Commission to ensure that “the guidelines reflect the fact that, in many cases, current sentences do not accurately reflec...

Crime supply functions are reestimated in this paper using data corrected for victim underreporting. It is found in both a meanvariance specification and a conventional crime supply function which includes measures of the offender's gains and losses involved in property crimes that certainty and severity of punishment still deter. When correction for underreporting is made, the effects on the r...

Organizations have long relied upon the threat of sanctions to influence employees to follow information security policies. Unfortunately, the belief in the power of deterrence has provided mixed results in both research and in real life. This study explored the impact of sanction effects in an organization with a robust information security program. Findings indicate an employee’s perceived sa...

Abstract Using a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation, the paper examines how drug dealers in Hong Kong adopted restrictive deterrence strategies to reduce certainty, and mitigate severity, punishment. It seven concrete techniques, including camouflage public places, picking safe time position, counter-reconnaissance, choosing less severe activity, stashing product, passing ri...

Law number 35/2009 on Narcotics regulates the special minimum punishment. However, judges violate criminal limit, causing legal certainty and justice friction. This article examines in consideration of punishing narcotics crime cases. research uses normative empirical approaches through literature, document analysis, case studies, resource person interviews. Based results discussion, it is conc...