Policing for Profit: The Political Economy of Law Enforcement

• In Event: Crime Policies and Crime Governance

Brief Overview

We model the effects of fiscal incentives on both law enforcement and offender behavior and test the model using a regression discontinuity design and citation and accident data from Saskatchewan, Canada from 1990 through 2017.

Authors

• Anna L. Harvey, New York University

• Greg DeAngelo, Claremont Graduate University

• Murat Mungan, George Mason University