This paper offers a novel explanation for extortion, which is the practice of demanding payments from compliant agents by law-enforcement officers. Namely, that extortion occurs due to the officer's incompetence, where the...
Economic intuition suggests that enforcement errors incentivize crimes, therefore officers must be penalized for committing such errors. Legal scholars argue that if penalties for errors are severe, officers may become timid...
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