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Law Enforcement Planning - The Limits of an Economic Analysis (Hardcover)
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Law Enforcement Planning - The Limits of an Economic Analysis (Hardcover)
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Is cost-benefit analysis the best means to determine and formulate
public policies? To answer this question Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick
examines its application to crime and criminal justice and the
implications of that application. In this interdisciplinary study,
Sedgwick first assesses the value of applying economic models to
the social problem of crime. He compares economic models to
sociological ones and then addresses the question of whether
economic models are compatible with the values of a liberal
political order. He shows that cost-benefit analysis suffers from
technical and ethical problems when used to set law enforcement
goals. Current techniques for measuring the costs of crime are
crude and unreliable, he argues, and overreliance on citizen and
consumer preference may lead to the adoption of policies
incompatible with American political traditions and respect for
human rights. Sedgwick concludes that economic analysis cannot, by
itself, lead to the adoption of effective and publicly defensible
policies to combat crime.
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