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Titolo |
Lessons from the economics of crime : what reduces offending? / / edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crime - Economic aspects |
Crime prevention |
Criminals - Rehabilitation |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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