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Published findings from the spouse assault replication program: A critical review
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
Published reports from seven jointly developed experiments have addressed whether or not arrest is an effective deterrent to misdemeanor spouse assault. Findings supporting a deterrent effect, no effect, and an escalation ...
Social science in court
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1986-06)
This article discusses the role of social science in legal proceedings with special attention to the ethical situation of the expert psychologist asked to testify about the reliability of an eyewitness identification. It ...
Assistance to the poor in a federal system
(Elsevier, 1987-04)
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model incorporating utility interdependence, the paper first presents some theoretical results indicating how levels of poor ...
A general equilibrium model of heterogeneous local property taxes
(Elsevier, 1977-12)
A formal model of an economy consisting of many production centres, each of which levies property taxes at a different rate, is developed and analyzed. In the context of the model, it is shown that holders of capital may ...
On the welfare effects of tax limitation
(Elsevier, 1981-12)
Much recent literature has been devoted to providing theoretical and empirical analysis of the proposition that government is `too large'. Far less attention has been paid to the issue of whether tax and expenditure ...
Déjà vu all over again: Elliott's critique of eyewitness experts
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-04)
Sticks and Stones
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-12)
Childhood predictors of adult criminality: are all risk factors reflected in childhood aggressiveness?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-09)
Background Early aggressive behaviour is one of the best predictors of adult criminality. Aim To assess the degree to which family background variables, parental beliefs and behaviour and child intelligence predict child ...
Trial-type ceremonies and defendant behavior
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1977-12)
This study uses hearing transcripts to examine judge-defendant interaction in a trial-type setting. The setting is a public housing eviction hearing; judges are eviction board members and defendants are tenants facing ...
Taxes, tariffs, and the global corporation
(Elsevier, 1993-05)
In this paper we develop some simple models of optimal tax and tariff policy in the presence of global corporations that operate in an imperfectly competitive environment. The models emphasize two important differences in ...