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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.2/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Crime - Economic aspects |
| Crime prevention | |
| Criminals - Rehabilitation | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | ECONOMICS/General |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CookPhilip J. <1946-> |
| MachinStephen | |
| MarieOlivier | |
| MastrobuoniGiovanni | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lessons from the economics of crime |
| ISBN: | 0-262-31463-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825365603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
CESifo Seminar Series