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Monetary incentives are increasingly seen as attractive alternatives to strict regulatory approaches for achieving objectives. This book examines one of the most ambitious attempts to use monetary incentives in the criminal justice system: New York City's $8.25 million Speedy Disposition Program (SDP). New York City officials introduced SDP as an incentive scheme to encourage the city's six District Attorneys to accelerate the disposition of those criminal cases that most contributed to the city's chronic jail overcrowding problem. Substantial financial rewards would be given to those DAs' offices that managed to dispose of their oldest felony cases, those cases involving "long-term detainee...
"The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. Historians often portray Chicago as an unregulated industrial metropolis, composed of factories and immigrant labourers. In fact, the city was home to thousands of craftsmen - carpenters, teamsters, barbers, butchers, etc. - who formed unions and associations that governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Working together, these groups forcefully challenged the power of national corporations and physically managed the development of mass culture in the city."--BOOK JACKET.
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Der Arbeitsbereich DDR-Forschung und -Archiv unseres Zentralinstituts freut sich, ein knappes Jahr nach Er scheinen des ersten Bandes dieser systematischen Bibliographie, in dem Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte, zum politischen System der DDR, zum Verhältnis der DDR zu den nichtkommunistischen Ländern und zur deut schen Frage nachgewiesen wurden, nunmehr den zweiten vorlegen zu können. Er enthält Monographien, Auf sätze aus Sammelbänden und aus Wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften der Universitäten und Hochschulen zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der SBZlDDR sowie Veröffentlichungen zu Aufgabe und Inhalt der marxistisch-le ninistischen Wirtschaftswissenschaften. - Die Erfahrungen, die ...