Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
There is now a large body of empirical work that calls into question the traditional legal assumptions about how law shapes behavior.
Adam Fine is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University, where he studies perceptions of law, law enforcement, and justice. He is the co-author (with Benjamin van Rooij) of The Invisible Code: Why Law Fails to Improve our Behavior.
There is now a large body of empirical work that calls into question the traditional legal assumptions about how law shapes behavior.
In order for governments to promote public health effectively, they must ensure their citizens abide by public health orders, without turning their open societies into police states.