Sanctions and Rewards in the Legal System : : A Multidisciplinary Approach / / ed. by Martin Friedland.

Ten distinguished experts look at the important subject of sanctions and rewards in the legal system from the perspective of their individual disciplines. Among the issues they consider are society's selection of legal and other techniques to encourage obedience to the law, the relative effecti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Criminal Sanctions in England since 1500
  • 2. Sociology and Legal Sanctions
  • 3. The Economics of Criminal Sanctions
  • 4. Deterrence and the Tort System
  • 5. Methods for Measuring General Deterrence: A Plea for the Field Experiment
  • 6. Sanctions and Rewards: The Approach of Psychology
  • 7. Sanctions and Rewards: An Organizational Perspective
  • 8. An Anthropological View of Sanctions and Rewards
  • 9. Achieving Compliance with Collective Objectives A Political Science Perspective
  • 10. Choice of Target and Other Law Enforcement Variables