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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0765637103
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0765637109
• Author: Anthony Yezer (Author)

This text is designed for use in a course on the economics of crime in a variety of settings. Assuming only a previous course in basic microeconomics, this innovative book is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature. Showing the power of microeconomics in action, Yezer covers a wide array of topics. There are chapters on the following topics: benefit-cost and the imprisonment decision, enforcement games, juvenile crime, private enforcement, economics of 3 strikes law, broken windows strategies, police profiling, and crime in developing countries. There are also separate chapters on guns, drugs, and capital punishment. Timely boxed examples are found throughout. Problems at the end of each chapter allow students to reinforce their microeconomics skills and to gain insight into the way they can be applied to case examples.

Table contents:

Introduction

Part I: Fundamental Economics of Crime and Enforcement  1. The Economic Rationale for the Criminal Law  2. Benefit/Cost Analysis of the Enforcement Decision  3. Measuring the Amount and Cost of Crime

Part II: Applying Economic Theory to Crime  4. The Market for “Victimless” Crime  5. The Market for Crime with Victims  6. Risk Preferences and the Supply of Offenses  7. The State Preference Model and the Economics of Tax Evasion  8. Modeling Neighborhood Crime and Self-Enforcement  9. Enforcement Games

Part III: Use of Statistical Analysis in Research on Crime  10. Statistical Problems in Testing Models of Crime  11. Implicit Market Measures of the Benefits of Crime Control

Part IV: Economics of Specific Enforcement Issues  12. Economics of Incarceration: Deterrence and Incapacitation  13. Economics of Three-Strikes Legislation  14. Juvenile Crime  15. Neighborhood Gangs  16. Economic Effects of Private Enforcement  17. The Broken Windows Hypothesis  18. Crime and Economic Development  19. Guns and Crime  20. Drugs and Crime  21. Economics of Profiling  22. Deterrence and Capital Punishment

Title tag:

1. Understanding the Economics behind Crime and Law Enforcement
2. Exploring the Economic Implications of Crime and Its Enforcement
3. Analyzing the Interface between Economics, Crime, and Law Enforcement