The emergence of the World Wide Web, smartphones, and computers has transformed the
world and enabled individuals to engage in crimes in a multitude of new ways …

Speeding has been a great concern around the world due to the occurrence and severity of
road crashes. This paper presents an evaluation of the effectiveness of different penalty and …

Ensuring motor carriers comply with safety rules is critical to the efficient workings of supply
chains and the safety of the motoring public. However, little is understood regarding how …

We are interested in the possible contributions of mathematical modelling of crime. We refer
to numerous and quite recent papers that analyse and discuss empirical data in an attempt …

Punishment severity and crime rates vary across jurisdictions. Some countries have punitive
sanctions and nevertheless experience relatively high crime rates. This article explores …

This study tackles one of the key aspects of the criminal career, the age of onset. In
criminology and related disciplines, age of onset has become an important theoretical …

This article argues that the law should sometimes encourage offenders to incur costs to
avoid punishment. Avoidance, such as concealment of evidence, perjury, or obstruction of …

A defendant who admits to having committed an offense may nevertheless be acquitted if he
can provide a legally cognizable justification or excuse for his actions by raising an …

This paper analyzes a model in which a firm's compliance with regulation is monitored by a
supervisor. The supervisor exerts costly, unobservable effort to raise his inspection intensity …

Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs
substantially from the true level. To incorporate this insight, we extend the standard …