Record Nr.

UNINA9910790527103321

Titolo

Lessons from the economics of crime : what reduces offending? / / edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013]

ISBN

0-262-31463-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Disciplina

364.2/5

Soggetti

Crime - Economic aspects

Crime prevention

Criminals - Rehabilitation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Crime Economics in Its Fifth Decade; Part I: Policy Choice and Normative Framework; 1 COPS and Cuffs; 2 Drug Prohibition and Its Alternatives; 3 Mechanism Experiments for Crime Policy; Part II: Crime as a Rational Choice; 4 What Works in Reducing Re-Offending?; 5 The Young Prisoner's Dilemma; 6 What Works in Reducing Hooliganism?; Part III: Feedback and Interactions; 7 Crime and Immigration: What Do We Know?; 8 Organized Crime, Violence, and the Quality of Politicians; 9 Centralized versus Decentralized Police Hiring in Italy and the United States

10 The "Program of Integration and Management in Public Safety" in Minas Gerais, BrazilContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reporting on research in the United States, Europe, and South America, this book discusses 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 and much more.