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  • March 2019
  • Article

Joint Culpability: The Impact of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime

By: Yu-Wei Luke Chu and Wilbur Townsend
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction

By: Carlos Medina and Jorge Tamayo
We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide... View Details
Keywords: Security; Life Satisfaction; Crime and Corruption; Housing; Safety; Perception; Colombia
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  • March 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Laura Winig
In 2010, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Profit; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; United States
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  • 2001
  • Working Paper

Using a Terrorist Attack to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
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  • 19 Jul 2016
  • News

$14.7 Billion Volkswagen Settlement Will Not Deter Future White Collar Corporate Crime

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Petia Topalova
Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to... View Details
Keywords: Rainfall; Weather; Crime; Trade Liberalization; India; Crime and Corruption; Poverty; India
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    Personal Relationships and Enforcement of Management Controls: An Analysis of Punishments for Perpetrators of Economic Crimes

    To explore how companies enforce management control systems, we examine whether social relationships influence the severity and consistency of punishments for main perpetrators of corporate economic crimes. We find wide variation in rates of dismissal and... View Details
    • March 2012
    • Case

    Fighting Corruption at Siemens

    By: Paul Healy and Djordjija Petkoski
    On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and spanned operations in Asia, Africa, Europe,... View Details
    Keywords: White-collar Crime; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Ethics
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    • Article

    Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
    We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from electronic monitoring. Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges... View Details
    Keywords: Crime; Prison; Recidivism; Behavior; Situation or Environment; Crime and Corruption; Argentina
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    • 06 Jun 2021
    • News

    No one is policing corporate America, and white-collar crime is on the rise. What comes next could be a full-scale financial meltdown.

    • 08 Sep 1995
    • Lecture

    Ideas and Issues Raised at the Conference." Speaker. "Corporate Crime in America: Strengthening the 'Good Citizen' Corporation

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

    By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim
    Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported... View Details
    Keywords: Crime; Gender Bias; Women; Women Executives; Corruption; Legal Aspects Of Business; Firing; Human Capital; Human Resource Management; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption; Judgments; Law Enforcement; Human Resources; Corporate Governance; Gender
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    • 19 Aug 2013
    • News

    The Conflict of Interest Inherent in A Corporation Paying for Its Employee’s Counsel: A Better Model for Preventing and Addressing Corporate Crime

    • April 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Tessa Natanay Hamilton
    Following a successful career as the first female Vice President of Goldman Sachs in Asia, Junko Yoda became a 2010 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During her fellowship, she set out to promote awareness, and prevent and alleviate the effects of human... View Details
    Keywords: Crime; Business And Community; Community Impact; Communities; Economic Development; Innovation; Leadership; Change Management; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Asia
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    • 31 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

    American cities have experienced an alarming double-digit rise in hate crimes in recent years, due in part to factors like anti-Asian sentiment in the wake of the pandemic and racial strife following the murder of George Floyd. Now, new... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • August 2023
    • Article

    Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

    By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
    Safety net programs, common in settings with high informality like Latin America, often use a means test to establish eligibility. We ask: in settings in which organised crime provides lucrative opportunities in the informal market, will discouraging formal employment... View Details
    Keywords: Gangs; Informality; Crime and Corruption; Job Search; Recruitment; Colombia
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    • 31 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller

    View Video Editor's note: Watch the video in "full screen" mode for the best viewing experience. Before shaping one of the world’s largest sports brands, Nike executive Larry Miller spent years of his youth and early adulthood behind bars for several crimes, including... View Details
    Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
    • Profile

    Nikki Skovran

    few years, I like to do something different.” With three years’ experience breaking gangs in Baltimore, and another five years investigating violent crimes in Chicago, Nikki became both an expert investigator and an expert witness in... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship
    • 05 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

    disadvantaged or minority groups in India whose members are elected to local governments have not only more of a "political voice" but also more access to and better results from the justice system. In the working paper The Power of Political Voice: Women's... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 17 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova