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The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse

The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse

The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse
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The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse Hardback - 2021

by Rooij, Benjamin van

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  • Title The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse
  • Author Rooij, Benjamin van
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press
  • Publication date 2021-10-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ANAIS-0807049085
  • ISBN 9780807049082 / 0807049085
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.56 cm)
  • Size 9.3X6.4X1.2
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Law - Social aspects, Disorderly conduct
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2021017587
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.1
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

An American Psychology-Law Society's Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award Winner

A 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and Criminology

A 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist

A Behavioral Scientist's Notable Book of 2021

Freakonomics for the law--how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior

Why do most Americans wear seatbelts but continue to speed even though speeding fines are higher? Why could park rangers reduce theft by removing "no stealing" signs? Why was a man who stole 3 golf clubs sentenced to 25 years in prison?

Some laws radically change behavior whereas others are consistently ignored and routinely broken. And yet we keep relying on harsh punishment against crime despite its continued failure.

Professors Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine draw on decades of research to uncover the behavioral code: the root causes and hidden forces that drive human behavior and our responses to society's laws. In doing so, they present the first accessible analysis of behavioral jurisprudence, which will fundamentally alter how we understand the connection between law and human behavior.

The Behavioral Code offers a necessary and different approach to battling crime and injustice that is based in understanding the science of human misconduct--rather than relying on our instinctual drive to punish as a way to shape behavior. The book reveals the behavioral code's hidden role through illustrative examples like:

- The illusion of the US's beloved tax refund
- German walls that "pee back" at public urinators
- The $1,000 monthly "good behavior" reward that reduced gun violence
- Uber's backdoor "Greyball" app that helped the company evade Seattle's taxi regulators
- A $2.3 billion legal settlement against Pfizer that revealed how whistleblower protections fail to reduce corporate malfeasance
- A toxic organizational culture playing a core role in Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal
- How Peter Thiel helped Hulk Hogan sue Gawker into oblivion

Revelatory and counterintuitive, The Behavioral Code catalyzes the conversation about how the law can effectively improve human conduct and respond to some of our most pressing issues today, from police misconduct to corporate malfeasance.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 08/23/2021, Page 0

About the author

Benjamin van Rooij, PhD, is a professor in law and society and the director of research at the School of Law at the University of Amsterdam and the Global Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Findings from his 2 decades of academic work have been featured in the New York Times, The Hill, NPR, and Huffington Post. His research on law and behavior was awarded a highly competitive and prestigious 2-million-Euro grant by the European Research Council.

Adam Fine, PhD, is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice and of law and behavioral sciences at Arizona State University. His award-winning work has been funded by the US Department of Justice and a Visionary Grant from the American Psychological Foundation. His 40-plus publications have routinely appeared in the top journals in psychology and law, developmental psychology, public policy, criminology, and criminal justice.

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