Many social institutions and social ecological systems utilize "costly sanctioning", which is just the idea that there is generally a cost involved in the real world to monitor and sanction behavior that falls outside of the norm. Whether it is the slice of income that we pay as taxes to fund police, or the time invested by neighbors that form a neighborhood watch, or the time invested by lobster fishermen to cut a rogue lobster fisherman's traps.
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Many social institutions and social ecological systems utilize "costly sanctioning", which is just the idea that there is generally a cost involved in the real world to monitor and sanction behavior that falls outside of the norm. Whether it is the slice of income that we pay as taxes to fund police, or the time invested by neighbors that form a neighborhood watch, or the time invested by lobster fishermen to cut a rogue lobster fisherman's traps.