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Self-Policing in a Targeted Enforcement Regime
74 Southern Economic Journal 934-951 (2008)
  • Sarah L. Stafford, William & Mary Law School
Abstract

This paper adds to the debate over whether self-policing can increase environmental protection by considering an issue that has been ignored in previous models—that self-policing may influence future enforcement. The model combines self-policing with targeted enforcement and allows for both deliberate and inadvertent violations. As expected, rewarding self-policers with more lenient future enforcement increases auditing, remediation, and disclosure of inadvertent violations. Self-policing can also serve as a complement to deliberate compliance and can thus further increase environmental performance. However, under reasonable conditions, self-policing can be a substitute for deliberate compliance and could therefore be detrimental to environmental protection.

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Disciplines
Citation Information
Sarah L. Stafford. "Self-Policing in a Targeted Enforcement Regime" 74 Southern Economic Journal 934-951 (2008) (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sarah-stafford/6/