Crime of Sexual Bribery

Public Perceptions of White Collar Crime Culpability: Bribery, Perjury, and Fraud

We are accustomed to thinking of “crime” as involving the most blameworthy and antisocial sorts of conduct in which citizens can engage, conduct that is clearly and unambiguously more wrongful than conduct that is not criminal. But the reality is more complex, especially when we look at certain kinds of “white collar” behavior. One of us (Green) has previously undertaken an in-depth investigati...

The laboratory aspects of sexual crime.

There are two groups of offences in this country in which the police have normally sought the help of the medical profession, namely, the various crimes involving violence-such as murder, attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, and the likeand the whole range of sexual offences. Since the establishment during the last decade of government-sponsored forensic science laboratories, help from these...

Swap Bribery

In voting theory, bribery is a form of manipulative behavior in which an external actor (the briber) offers to pay the voters to change their votes in order to get her preferred candidate elected. We investigate a model of bribery where the price of each vote depends on the amount of change that the voter is asked to implement. Specifically, in our model the briber can change a voter’s preferen...

Nonuniform bribery

We study the concept of bribery in the situation where voters are willing to change their votes as we ask them, but where their prices depend on the nature of the change we request. Our model is an extension of the one of Faliszewski et al. [FHH06], where each voter has a single price for any change we may ask for. We show polynomial-time algorithms for our version of bribery for a broad range ...

Thinking About Bribery