The following text discusses the Department's proposed rollback methodology, as amended in its Preliminary Prayer (the Department's Prayer), and outlines the ways in which it is seriously flawed.

This paper evaluates attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. Economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individuals surveyed, more than half of the sample has previ...