The paradox of expected punishment: Legal and economic factors determining success and failure in the fight against organized crime

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 290-317

  Buscaglia, Edgardo ^a,b,c  

^a International Law and Economic Development Center

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Columbia Law School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Governance; Judicial reform; Jurisprudence; Law and economics of development; Organized crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549088231     PISSN: 15555879     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1206     Document Type: Review

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