The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improuing the justice system's response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are a t increased risk for crime uictimization. Not only are children the uictims of many of the same crimes that uictimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to...

I introduce a model of shareholder voting. describe and provide characterizations three families voting rules: ratio rules, difference share majority rules. The rely on two key axioms: merger consistency, which requires consistency in outcomes following stock‐for‐stock mergers, reallocation invariance, the rule to be immune certain manipulative techniques used by shareholders hide their ownersh...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improving the justice system’s response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are at increased risk for crime victimization. Not only are children the victims of many of the same crimes that victimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to ...

A lockdown due to Covid-19 virus, which restricted the right gather, was announced by Government of Republic Lithuania in March 2020. The severely affected activity public and private limited liability companies’ body – general meeting shareholders, i. e. manager’s had find alternative ways organize shareholders that would not pose a risk shareholders’ health pandemic situation.In this article ...

The ability to buy “empty votes” by using derivative contracts to separate shares’ voting and cash flow rights is a cause of policy concern. We construct a formal model of a market for empty votes where informed and uninformed (and potentially biased) shareholders endogenously choose to demand or supply. There always exists an equilibrium where only informed shareholders demand votes, since uni...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the transition from substance abuse to substance dependence. OBJECTIVES This study aims to estimate the cumulative probability of developing dependence and to identify predictors of transition to dependence among individuals with lifetime alcohol, cannabis, or cocaine abuse. METHODS Analyses were done for the subsample of individuals with lifetime alcohol ab...

This paper studies the advisory role of a target company board in takeovers. I show that coordination failures among target shareholders, such as free-riding, limit the board’s ability to properly advise shareholders whether accepting a takeover o¤er is in their best interest based on its information. Even if there are no agency problems and the board’s objective is to maximize shareholders’val...

We present a new protocol for the verifiable redistribution of secrets from (m,n) to (m,n) access structures for threshold sharing schemes. Our protocol enables the addition or removal of shareholders and also guards against mobile adversaries that cause permanent damage. We observe that existing protocols either cannot be readily extended to allow redistribution between different access struct...