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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780562103321

Titolo

Sanctions and rewards in the legal system : a multidisciplinary approach / / edited by M.L. Friedland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1989

©1989

ISBN

1-282-03964-4

9786612039645

1-4426-7955-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Sanctions (Law)

Reward (Law)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, May 1986.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first stage in a program on sanctions and rewards in the legal system sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and part of the Institute's wider program on law and society.