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Great guest post. There is ample evidence that, for example, the “war on drugs” has been lost for a long time, yet, we continue in a useless fight. Better to completely decriminalize certain drugs regarding possession and use, and levy taxes on the ...
From MARK KLEIMAN, GUEST-BLOGGING,
The Volokh Conspiracy,
31 Oct 2009
Treat arrests and punishments as costs, not benefits.
Emphasize swiftness and certainty of punishment rather than severity.
Design punishments with the maximum ratio of deterrent efficacy to (1) the suffering inflicted and (2) the damage to the ...
From MARK KLEIMAN, GUEST-BLOGGING,
The Volokh Conspiracy,
30 Oct 2009
The burdens of crime and incarceration are not evenly spread; instead, they are highly concentrated by race and class. Neither race nor class alone is a sufficient explanatory variable. (Bruce Western has done groundbreaking work on this.)
The picture ...
From MARK KLEIMAN, GUEST-BLOGGING,
The Volokh Conspiracy,
29 Oct 2009
Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.
To the Editor: Frank et al. (July 9 issue)1 do not discuss the issue of therapeutic misconception2 — namely, the ...
Crime has been a badly underestimated problem: more so among scholarly experts than among ordinary citizens or elected officials. A1% reduction in crime provides economic value — measured in terms of willingness-to-pay – of something like $15 billion ...
From MARK KLEIMAN, GUEST-BLOGGING,
The Volokh Conspiracy,
28 Oct 2009
If a group of individuals subject to some rule face an enforcement mechanism that is limited in its capacity, their rates of rule-violation will be interdependent.
Imagine a classroom of well-behaved children. When Johnnie throws a spitball at Suzie, ...
From MARK KLEIMAN, GUEST-BLOGGING,
The Volokh Conspiracy,
27 Oct 2009
Hawaii's HOPE probation program illustrates how this approach plays out in practice. In Hawaii, as in California, neither judges nor probation officers want to revoke probation and send a probationer to prison for "technical" violations of probation ...
From MARK KLEIMAN,
Huffington Post,
18 Oct 2009
Andrew Sullivan speaks for many when he writes:
One Last Thing, Mr President: If you believe it is wrong to fire people from their jobs solely because they are gay, as you said Saturday night, stop doing it.
How should he “stop doing it”? Yes, Harry ...
From MARK KLEIMAN,
Huffington Post,
12 Oct 2009
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From MARK KLEIMAN,
Huffington Post,
4 Oct 2009
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