Handbook on the Economics of Crime

Edited by Bruce Benson and Paul R. Zimmerman

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While few economists analyzed criminal behaviour and the criminal justice process before Gary Becker’s seminal 1968 paper, an enormous body of economic research on crime has since been produced. This insightful and comprehensive Handbook reviews and extends much of this important resulting research.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781847209542
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Market Model of Crime: A Short Review and New Directions

Isaac Ehrlich

Ch 2 Estimating the Supply of Crime: Recent Advances

Helen Tauchen

Ch 3 The Measure of Vice and Sin: A Review of the Uses, Limitations and Implications of Crime Data

Alexander Tabarrok, Paul Heaton and Eric Helland

Ch 4 Dynamic Perspectives on Crime

Justin McCrary

Ch 5 The Historical Development of Public Policing, Prosecution and Punishment

Nicholas A. Curott and Edward Stringham

Ch 6 Police, Prisons, and Punishment: The Empirical Evidence on Crime Deterrence

Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok

Ch 7 Prison Population and Crime

Thomas B. Marvell

Ch 8 The Allocation of Police

Bruce Benson

Ch 9 The Economic Analysis of Corruption

Fred S. McChesney

Ch 10 Economics of Crime and Drugs: Prohibition and Public Policies for Illicit Drug Control

Edward M. Shepard and Paul R. Blackely

Ch 11 The Economic Costs of Criminal Activity: A Discussion of Methodological Approaches and Empirical Estimates

Allen K. Lynch

Ch 12 Crime and Housing Prices

Keith Ihlanfeldt and Thomas Mayock

Ch 13 Corruption, Crime and Economic Growth

Benjamin Powell, G Manish and Malavika Nair

Ch 14 Labor Markets and Crime: New Evidence on an Old Puzzle

David Mustard

Ch 15 Private Policing: Experiences, Evaluation and Future Direction

Erwin Blackstone and Simon Hakim

Ch 16 The Economics of Capital Punishment and Deterrence

Paul R. Zimmerman

Ch 17 Firearms and Homicide

Carlisle E. Moody

Ch 18 Abortion and Crime: A Review

Ted Joyce

Ch 19 Casinos and Crime in the USA

Douglas Walker

Ch 20 Conclusion

Bruce Benson and Paul R. Zimmerman

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