2nd Edition
The Economics of Crime An Introduction to Rational Crime Analysis
By Harold Winter
Copyright 2020
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Economics of Crime presents a review of economic scholarly research in the ever-growing field of crime and punishment. Without using graphs or mathematical equations, Winter combines theory and empirical evidence relating to public policy concerns over a wide range of controversial topics such as the death penalty, racial bias in the criminal justice system, gun control, the war on drugs,... Read more
1 Rational crime basics
2 Crime and the certainty of punishment
3 Severity of punishment I: fines and efficient punishment
4 Severity of punishment II: prison and crime
5 Severity of punishment III: the death penalty and crime
6 Racial bias and the criminal justice system
7 Private crime deterrence
8 The war on drugs
9 Behavioral crime and punishment
10 Economists and crime
Biography
Harold Winter is Professor of Economics at Ohio University. His previous books include The Economics of Excess: Addiction, Indulgence, and Social Policy (2011), Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues (2013), and Issues in Law and Economics (2017).
