328 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
by
Willan
328 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
by
Willan
328 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
by
Willan
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Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime and criminology.
The economics of crime is an area of growing activity and concern, increasingly influential both to the study of crime and criminal justice and to the formulation of crime reduction and criminal justice policy. As well as providing an overview... Read more
1. Introduction 2. A Brief Introduction to Economic Theory 3. Modelling Criminal Behaviour 4. Rational Choice Theory in Criminology 5. The Labour Market, Poverty and Crime 6. Economic Tools: Estimating the Bottom Line of Criminal Justice Intervetions 7. The Costs of Crime 8. Crime Reduction 9. The Economic Analysis of Prisons and Community Justice Alternatives 10. Organised Crime 11. Illicit Drugs
Biography
Kevin Albertson is Acting Head of the Department of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Chris Fox is Professor of Evaluation in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.
"Whilst I would see the main appeal of this book being to students in both disciplines, I found this book to be both interesting and challenging and of particular relevance to the changing nature of the probation service. It is without doubt an academic text but the approach the authors have adopted ensures that practitioners would be able to readily apply the concepts covered to their work." – Probation Journal
