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Lessons from the economics of crime, what reduces offending?, edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

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Lessons from the economics of crime, what reduces offending?, edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lessons from the economics of crime

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bibliography

Oclc number

828057623

Responsibility statement

edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Series statement

CESifo seminar series

Sub title

what reduces offending?

Summary

"Economists who bring the tools of economic analysis to bear on the study of crime and crime prevention contribute to current debates a normative framework and sophisticated quantitative methods for evaluating policy, the idea of criminal behavior as rational choice, and the connection of individual choices to aggregate outcomes. The contributors to this volume draw on all three of these approaches in their investigations and discuss the policy implications of their findings. Reporting on research in the United States, Europe, and South America, the chapters discuss such topics as a cost-benefit analysis of additional police hiring, the testing of innovative policy interventions through field experiments, imprisonment and recidivism rates, incentives and disincentives for sports hooliganism ("hooliganomics"), data showing the influence of organized crime on the quality of local politicians, and the (scant) empirical evidence for the effect of immigration on crime. These contributions demonstrate the eclectic approach of economists studying crime as well as their increasing respect for the contributions of other social scientists in this area"--provided by publisher

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