Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence suggests that public prosecutors and their influence on...

The article is devoted to the study of foreign and Russian models procedural management criminal prosecution. authors propose general theoretical approaches that made it possible conduct their systemic analysis comparison. Prerequisites for research: necessity reform legislation in terms prosecution, optimize distribution functions between official subjects activity. Purpose create a model pros...

BACKGROUND Non-disclosure criminal prosecutions among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are increasing, even though transmission risk is low when effective antiretroviral treatment (ART) is used. Reduced HIV testing may reduce the impact of HIV "test and treat" strategies. We aimed to quantify the potential impact of non-disclosure prosecutions on HIV testing and transmiss...

If investors are not fully rational, what can smart money do? This paper provides an example in which smart money can strategically take advantage of investors’ behavioral biases and manipulate the price process to make profit. The paper considers three types of traders, behavior-driven investors who are less willing to sell losers than to sell winners (dispositional effect), arbitrageurs, and ...

A Practice Note covering trends and developments in the federal government's prosecution of white collar crime. Specifically, this Note examines the government's tactics and strategies in enforcing federal criminal laws, the elements of several criminal statutes frequently used by the government to prosecute corporate crime, what constitutes criminal intent in white collar cases, company and ma...

Volume 94 No. 9 September 2011 was sentenced to168 months in prison and ordered to pay $9.5 million in restitution for his part in the five-year long scheme. In December, the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals paid $7.9 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals wrongfully obtained excessive outlier payments. In March of 2010, a cancer center in Florida agreed to pay $12 million ...