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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.
Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for
concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal
justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest
in the UK. Justice Reinvestment is an approach to addressing the
penal crisis that uses the best available evidence to re-direct
resources to more effective rehabilitation of offenders and better
'prehabilitation'. It takes a more holistic view of criminal
justice and is particularly concerned to address the community
dimensions of offending and re-offending. The authors highlight
competing models of Justice Reinvestment and argue for a more
radical version in which criminal justice reform is seen as part of
a wider social justice reform programme. This is the first
substantial publication on Justice Reinvestment and shows that
'Justice Reinvestment' has huge potential to re-shape the criminal
justice system. It will be essential reading for undergraduate and
post-graduate students with an interest in criminal justice reform.
Practitioners and policy-makers working in the criminal justice
system in the US and the UK will also value the fresh perspective
it brings to criminal justice reform and its breadth of coverage
including insights into the penal crisis, different models of
Justice Reinvestment, the use of criminal justice data and research
evidence in re-designing criminal justice services and new
approaches to commissioning.
Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for
concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal
justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest
in the UK. Justice Reinvestment is an approach to addressing the
penal crisis that uses the best available evidence to re-direct
resources to more effective rehabilitation of offenders and better
'prehabilitation'. It takes a more holistic view of criminal
justice and is particularly concerned to address the community
dimensions of offending and re-offending. The authors highlight
competing models of Justice Reinvestment and argue for a more
radical version in which criminal justice reform is seen as part of
a wider social justice reform programme. This is the first
substantial publication on Justice Reinvestment and shows that
'Justice Reinvestment' has huge potential to re-shape the criminal
justice system. It will be essential reading for undergraduate and
post-graduate students with an interest in criminal justice reform.
Practitioners and policy-makers working in the criminal justice
system in the US and the UK will also value the fresh perspective
it brings to criminal justice reform and its breadth of coverage
including insights into the penal crisis, different models of
Justice Reinvestment, the use of criminal justice data and research
evidence in re-designing criminal justice services and new
approaches to commissioning.
Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this
enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of
responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics,
politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the
concept of 'responsible stagnation' as an expansion of present
discussions about growth, degrowth, responsibility and innovation
within planetary limitations. This important intervention explores
real-world relationships between the political economy, innovation
policy and concepts of responsibility, and will be an invaluable
resource for individuals and civil society organizations who seek
to promote responsible innovation.
As public services budgets are cut, the 'Payment by Results' (or
Pay for Success) model has become a popular choice in public sector
commissioning. Social Impact Bonds are a variant of Payment by
Results also promoted by proponents of social (or impact)
investing. But how effective are these approaches? This short book
asks whether the Payment by Results model is an efficient way to
unlock new capital investment, help new providers to enter the
'market' and foster innovation, or whether the extension of
'neoliberal' thinking, complexity and the effects of managerialism
undermine the effective delivery of social outcomes. Synthesising
lessons from the UK and US for the first time, the book draws on
published work in both countries together with insights from the
authors' own research and consultancy experience to offer a
balanced and bipartisan overview of a field where the evidence has
been weak and there are strong ideological agendas in play.
Exploring contemporary challenges and opportunities for the
realisation of Decent Work, this edited collection reviews the
origins of the concept and helps to demonstrate its working in
practice. Using a Decent Work lens to explore the realities of
eroding work conditions in typical and atypical work, the analyses
presented here argue that urgent action is required to address
these issues for the benefit of individual workers, and society as
a whole. Prepared by researchers and collaborators associated with
the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre at Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK, this volume provides insights from an
exceptional blend of authors presenting high-quality research from
multiple disciplines including economics, labour market studies,
organisation studies, sociology, psychology, career development and
education. These unique and wide-ranging contributions position
Decent Work as valuable to important questions about the future of
work, and emerging interdisciplinary research about work.
Addressing changes to today's work and employment relationships -
including the roles of governments, employers, and trade unions -
this volume offers suggestions for how public and private sector
policy and practice can support the realisation of Decent Work,
while also theorising the concept's contested nature, and exploring
urgent and practical possibilities to secure fair and decent
working lives for all.
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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