Economics of Crime and Enforcement

Economics of Crime and Enforcement
Author: Anthony M. Yezer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317472462

This text is designed for use in a course on the economics of crime in a variety of settings. Assuming only a previous course in basic microeconomics, this innovative book is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature. Showing the power of microeconomics in action, Yezer covers a wide array of topics. There are chapters on the following topics: benefit-cost and the imprisonment decision, enforcement games, juvenile crime, private enforcement, economics of 3 strikes law, broken windows strategies, police profiling, and crime in developing countries. There are also separate chapters on guns, drugs, and capital punishment. Timely boxed examples are found throughout. Problems at the end of each chapter allow students to reinforce their microeconomics skills and to gain insight into the way they can be applied to case examples.

Economics of Crime

Economics of Crime
Author: Erling Eide
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1933019484

Economics of Crime presents the basic model of criminal behavior and law enforcement. The authors start by reviewing the economics of criminal behavior. Models of criminal behavior applying the model of individual rational behavior are presented. Empirical studies surveyed use regression analyses and employ data from states and police regions down to individuals. These studies tend to support the hypothesis that the probability of punishment and the severity of punishment have a deterrent effect on crime. Methodological problems relating to the assumption of rationality, statistical identification of equations, measurement errors, and operationalization of theoretical variables are discussed. Economics of Crime also review the theory of public enforcement including probability and severity, fines and imprisonment, repeat offenders, incentives of enforcers, enforcement costs and enforcement errors. Economics of Crime is intended for economists and lawyers, practitioners, scholars and students in the field of law and economics, microeconomics, and criminology who wish to learn the basics of the economics of crime, criminal behavior, and law enforcement.

New Perspectives on Economic Crime

New Perspectives on Economic Crime
Author: Sjögren,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781843769835

Economic crime is, by definition, crime committed to gain profit within an otherwise legitimate business. Examples are illegal pollution, brand name infringement and tax evasion.

The Economics of Crime

The Economics of Crime
Author: Rafael Di Tella
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226153762

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of policies designed to tackle it. The Economics of Crime is a powerful corrective to this academic blind spot and makes an important contribution to the current debate on causes and solutions by applying lessons learned from recent developments in the economics of crime. The Economics of Crime addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of kidnappings on investment, mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime. Utilizining research from within and without Latin America, this book illustrates the broad range of approaches that have been efficacious in studying crime in both developing and developed nations. The Economics of Crime is a vital text for researchers, policymakers, and students of both crime and of Latin American economic policy.

The Economic Dimensions of Crime

The Economic Dimensions of Crime
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1349628530

This book seeks to raise the profile of economic perspectives on crime and criminal justice. It includes exemplars and original contributions, welded into a coherent whole by commentaries on each chapter and annotated further readings. It includes sections concerning the economic analysis of crime and punishment crime and the labor market and modeling the system-wide costs of criminal justice policies.

The Economics of Crime

The Economics of Crime
Author: Harold Winter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2008-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135982406

Wide ranging and accessible, this is the most up-to-date textbook in this area, taking current economic research and making it accessible to undergraduates and other interested readers.