Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Marijuana black market persists in CA (despite the beginning of a legal market)

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 The LA Times has the story, about how legalization of marijuana in California so far failed to end the black market, complete with violence...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Hitmen are common in film but otherwise scarce

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  The NYT considers the prevalence of hitmen in movies, and why it's hard to find one in real life. Hit Men Are Easy to Find in the Movi...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Some year-end good news: U.S. homicides are down

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To put deaths in their grim perspective, we have a lot more deaths from drug overdoses than from homicides.  But we're headed in the rig...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Digital data yields suspect in Idaho murders (NYT)

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 The NYT has the story of how a wide ranging search of a large variety of digital data  led to an arrest of a suspect (whose trial hasn'...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The (local) labor markets for terrorists and drug traffickers

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  It's so hard to hire good help nowadays, but two papers in the latest Econometrica give us some insight into how that problem is solv...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

The market for hitmen

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Why are laws against hitmen more effective in most of the world than laws against drug dealers?  Yesterday's post was about a paper tha...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Forbidden Transactions and Black Markets

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 Here's a paper that was just published early online. (Only now do I see that I left out the middle initial I always use, but I'm on...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Inter-caste marriage as a repugnant transaction in India: a hired hitman and a murdered groom

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In the U.S. we've had long periods where the future of inter-racial and same-sex marriages were in doubt. In India, inter-caste marriag...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Sex work, Craigslist, and the law; podcast with Scott Cunningham

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Here's a link to an interview with Scott Cunningham, whose work on sex work I've blogged about before . There's a surprising am...