Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible
text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime
and criminology. The economics of crime is an area of growing
activity and concern, increasingly influential both to the study of
crime and criminal justice and to the formulation of crime
reduction and criminal justice policy. As well as providing an
overview of the relationship between economics and crime, this book
poses key questions such as: What is the impact of the labour
market and poverty on crime? Can society decrease criminal activity
from a basis of economic disincentives? What forms of crime
reduction and methods of reducing re-offending are most cost
beneficial? Can illicit organised crime and illicit drug markets be
understood better through the application of economic analysis? For
those interested in economic methods, but without previous economic
training, this book also provides an accessible overview of key
areas such as cost-benefit analysis, econometrics and the debate
around how to estimate the costs of crime. This book will be key
reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology
and economics and those working in the criminal justice system
including practitioners, managers and policy makers.
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