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Bad Rules Make Bad Cops: Bart Wilson on The Economics of Civil Forfeiture
Submitted by Government Deni... on Mon, 2014-10-13 00:00
"Wilson, a professor of economics at Chapman University, and his co-author Michael Preciado designed a study to reveal how the incentives set forth under civil forfeiture affect human behavior. In the study, one undergraduate student plays the role of law enforcement in a computer game, and three others play the roles of the public. Subjects played for real money, and Wilson says the results were overwhelming."
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