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It Is Not Armed Robbery When Government Takes People's Stuff, It Is Civil Asset Forfeiture
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
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It Is Not Armed Robbery When Government Takes People's Stuff, It Is Civil Asset Forfeiture
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ROTHSCHILD, Daniel Y.; Department of Economics George Mason University 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030 daniel.y.rothschild@gmail.com BLOCK, Walter; Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business Loyola University New Orleans 6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15, Miller Hall 318 New Orleans, LA 70118 tel: (504) 864-7934 fax: (504) 864-7970 wblock@loyno.edu http://www.walterblock.com/ |
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Government; Competition.
H0; H1; H10. |
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Abstract. Civil asset forfeiture allows the police to profit from crime instead of the criminal by seizing a person’s belongings that were used in illegal activity. The police profit from crime by keeping a percentage of the proceeds they seize. This ends up creating some perverse incentives, such as having more police resources go to seize people’s assets instead of fighting crime. Shifting police efforts away from combating hard crime into fighting so-called “victimless crimes” causes an increase in hard crimes as criminals substitute from soft crimes, such as selling drugs, into hard crimes where the chances of being caught are now lower.Keywords. Theft, Government, Competition.JEL. H0, H10.
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Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences |
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2016-09-18
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/912
10.1453/jsas.v3i3.912 |
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Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 3, No 3 (2016): September; 219-230
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 3, No 3 (2016): September; 219-230 2149-0406 |
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eng
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/912/1029
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Copyright (c) 2016 Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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