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.
Contributors Brian Bell, Paolo Buonanno,
Philip J. Cook, John J. Donohue III, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jens Ludwig, Stephen Machin,
Olivier Marie, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Sendhil Mullainathan, Aurélie Ouss, Emily
Greene Owens, Stefan Pichler, Paolo Pinotti, Mikael Priks, Daniel Römer, Rodrigo R.
Soares, Igor Viveiros (Quelle: Verlag)
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ISBN:
978-0-262-01961-3
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0-262-01961-2
Beschreibung:
VI, 241 pp.
Sprache:
Englisch
Mediengruppe:
MONO