Tradeo↵s between privacy and security in the use of court-issued wiretap orders are examined. We collect all wiretap orders issued by the U.S. district and state court systems for narcotics-related o↵enses during the years 1998-2005 and all arrests and convictions resulting from those orders in the subsequent years. We extend the Beckerian theory of crime to explain the relationship between the...

Two experiments investigated whether outcomes that violate people’s moral standards increase their deviant behavior (the moral spillover effect). In Study 1, participants read about a legal trial in which the outcome supported, opposed or was unrelated to their moral convictions. Relative to when outcomes supported moral convictions, when outcomes opposed moral convictions people judged the out...

The steep rise in U.S. criminal punishment in recent decades has spurred scholarship on the collateral consequences of imprisonment for individuals, families, and communities. Several excellent studies have estimated the number of people who have been incarcerated and the collateral consequences they face, but far less is known about the size and scope of the total U.S. population with felony c...

the turbulent social, political and cultural situation in europe (and especially germany) in the early twentieth century led young heidegger to the question “what is the role and responsibility of the intellectual in society?” he maintained, in this regard, an important role on his own personal religious education, convictions and interests, because he believed that by creating interaction betw...

Three studies link resistance to probative information and intransigence in negotiation to concerns of identity maintenance. Each shows that affirmations of personal integrity (vs. nonaffirmation or threat) can reduce resistance and intransigence but that this effect occurs only when individuals' partisan identity and/or identity-related convictions are made salient. Affirmation made participan...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the criminal pattern in men between 15 and 70 years of age diagnosed with 47,XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome (KS)) or 47,XYY compared to the general population. DESIGN Register-based cohort study comparing the incidence of convictions among men with KS and with 47,XYY with age- and calendar-matched samples of the general population. Crime was classified into eight types (...