Why Do Good Cops Defend Bad Cops?

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Why Do Good Cops Defend Bad Cops?

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Benoit, J-P.
Dubra, J.

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Juan Dubra

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Policemen are known to support colleagues who are the subject of criminal investigations. While we might expect guilty officers to defend each other, why do law-abiding policemen defend those who have broken the law? We investigate under what conditions it is in the interest of a group to defend its "bad" members.

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Paper provided by C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University in its series Working Papers with number 03-01.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: 2003
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- Jean-Pierre Benoit & Juan Dubra, 2004. "Why Do Good Cops Defend Bad Cops?," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 45(3), pages 787-809, 08. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Juan Dubra, 2004. "Why do Good Cops Defend Bad Cops?," Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings 342, Econometric Society.

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D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior

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NEP-ALL-2003-11-23 (All new papers)
NEP-CDM-2003-11-23 (Collective Decision-Making)

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