Keyword: law & law enforcement

Found 148 papers in total
Beyond the limits of recreation: social costs of gambling in southern Nevada
2005,
This study seeks to find the dollar value of social costs of gambling. The authors use...
To file or not to file: The causes of municipal bankruptcy in the United States
2004,
About 500 municipalities have declared bankruptcy since Congress passed the Municipal...
The trouble with speed cameras
2004,
Under a simple model of speeding offences, the probability distribution of the time to...
Cognitive mapping expert views for policy analysis in the public sector
2004,
This paper reports the use, in the UK Home Office Prison Department, of cognitive...
Fighting organized crimes: using shortest-path algorithms to identify associations in criminal networks
2004,
Effective and efficient link analysis techniques are needed to help law enforcement...
Further results from a trial comparing a hidden speed camera programme with visible camera operation
2002,
As described in a previous paper the hidden camera programme was found to be...
Probabilistic modeling of terrorist threats: A systems analysis approach to setting priorities among countermeasures
2002,
Setting priorities among homeland defense measures is a difficult task given the large...
Novice drivers' accidents and violations – a failure on higher or lower hierarchical levels of driving behaviour
2001,
The study compared accident and offence rates of 28 500 novice drivers in Finland. The...
An examination of the effects of balanced budget laws on state borrowing costs
2002,
This study investigates the relationship between different levels of state balanced...
The death of the corporate tax
2002,
This paper suggests that the proliferation of highly sophisticated corporate tax...
Modeling and analyzing the performance of aviation security systems using baggage value performance measures
2001,
Aviation security is an important concern of national interest. Baggage screening...
Court strategies in the appropriations process: The Oklahoma case
2002,
Little is known about the strategies used by state courts during the appropriations...
Evaluation of a program to motivate impaired driving offenders to install ignition interlocks
2002,
Approximately 30,000 alcohol ignition interlocks, which are designed to prevent the...
Predicted effect of automatic crash notification on traffic mortality
2002,
Objective: To estimate the reduction in traffic mortality in the United States that...
Measuring performance in Dumfries and Galloway constabulary with the balanced scorecard
2001,
Measuring the performance of public sector organisations has always been a difficult...
Optimal dynamic allocation of treatment and enforcement in illicit drug control
2001,
There has been considerable debate about what share of drug control resources should...
A fraud-alert model for credit cards during the authorization process
1993,
In this paper, we set forth an expert-system model to help alert banks and other...
Some mathematical aspects of security in the automated business environment
1992,
In the automated business world, personal contact and paper-based transactions are...
Motive, opportunity, choice, and corporate illegality
1997,
Research on corporate illegality spans several distinct literatures and defies ready...
The effect of traffic policing on road safety in Israel
2001,
We use panel data on road sections to investigate the effect of traffic policing on...
Employee selection under anti-discrimination law: Implications for multi-criteria group decision support
2000,
In a legal environment that prohibits discrimination in hiring, employee selection...
Fraud in the governmental and private sectors
2000,
The objective of this paper is to identify and provide a description, assessment, and...
Medical malpractice among physicians: Who will be sued and who will pay?
2000,
This paper examines whether a physician's future claims of medical malpractice are...
Optimal control of drug epidemics: Prevent and treat—but not at the same time?
2000,
Drug use and related problems change substantially over time, so it seems plausible...
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