Attached is a formal analysis of a large sample of cartel overcharges that I believe is relevant to your consideration of remedies for naked price fixing. This research suggests that differences in methods of calculating overcharges do not have much effect on variation in the size of those calculations. That is, antitrust prosecutors may be unjustified in their concerns about the difficulties o...

We draw on variations in the reach of capital punishment statutes between 1977 and 2004 to identify the deterrent effects associated with capital eligibility. Focusing on the most prevalent eligibility expansion, we estimate that the adoption of a child murder factor is associated with an approximately 20% reduction in the child murder rate. Eligibility expansions may enhance deterrence by (i) ...

Law enforcement agencies refer approximately two-thirds of all youth arrested to a court with juvenile jurisdiction for further processing. As with law enforcement, the court may decide to divert some juveniles away from the formal justice system to other agencies for service. Prosecutors may file some juvenile cases directly in criminal (adult) court. The net result is that juvenile courts for...

very practice treating Medicare patients is subject to an audit by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms), formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (hcfa). In the year  the federal government won or negotiated more than $. billion in judgments, settlements, and administrative impositions in health care fraud cases and proceedings; federal prosecutors filed ...

On August 1, 2006, a federal district judge sent Josh Wolf, a freelance video journalist and blogger, to prison. Wolf, a recent college graduate who did not work for a mainstream media organization at the time, captured video footage of an anti-capitalist protest in California and posted portions of the video on his blog. As part of an investigation into charges against protestors whose identit...

The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project (VIP) was designed to amplify the voice of the victim in the prosecution of a battering current or ex-partner through collaboration between the prosecution and victim-centered agencies. This article describes the rationale for and design and implementation of VIP and then explores whether it increased perceived voice. While some VIP services (advocacy and...

Aceh is a province in Indonesia that applies Islamic law enforcement, not infrequently enforcement East District by prosecutors experiencing obstacles applying Governor Regulation No. 5 of 2018 for the perpetrators Jarimah, so implementation up to now Prosecutor guided Qanun Number 7 2013 concerning Jinayat Procedural Law. This study aims find out how Governor's Prosecutors and why obstacles. u...

Enforcement is one of the greatest challenges in environmental policy-making. Even when policies are well-designed theoretically, they will not deliver the intended effects if the difficulties of enforcement are not explicitly incorporated in their design. Much of the rationale for the use of economic instruments is an attempt to economize on the informational requirements of policies and reduc...

OBJECTIVE Was to characterize the relationship between regulation at work and decision processes in the activity of Prosecutors in SC. To this end, it starts with the assumption that the decision-making and regulation are complex phenomena of conduct at work, since the worker makes continuously micro and macro decisions, based on a set of regulations, influenced by contingency and personal vari...