Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings
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Keywords
police killings; police violence; death investigations; coroner; medical examiner; policing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- K13 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Tort Law and Product Liability; Forensic Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2024-01-01 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-URE-2024-01-01 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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