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Controlling Crime
Strategies and Tradeoffs
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Edited by:
Philip J. Cook
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English
Published/Copyright:
2011
About this book
Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished either with fewer resources or by investing those resources in areas other than the criminal justice system is all the more relevant.
Controlling Crime considers alternative ways to reduce crime that do not sacrifice public safety. Among the topics considered here are criminal justice system reform, social policy, and government policies affecting alcohol abuse, drugs, and private crime prevention. Particular attention is paid to the respective roles of both the private sector and government agencies. Through a broad conceptual framework and a careful review of the relevant literature, this volume provides insight into the important trends and patterns of some of the interventions that may be effective in reducing crime.
Author / Editor information
Philip J. Cook is the ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics and sociology at Duke University, where he is also senior associate dean for faculty and research. He is a research associate of the NBER. Jens Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and a research associate of the NBER. Justin McCrary is professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty research fellow of the NBER. All three editors codirect the Working Group on the Economics of Crime at the NBER.
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I. Criminal Justice Reform
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Steven N. Durlauf and Daniel S. Nagin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Harold Pollack, Peter Reuter, Eric Sevigny and Jonathan P. Caulkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Richard G. Frank, Thomas G. McGuire and Jeffrey Swanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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II. Regulation of Criminal Opportunities and Criminogenic Commodities
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A Review of the Intervention Literature Patrick L. Hill, Brent W. Roberts, Jeffrey T. Grogger, Jonathan Guryan, Karen Sixkiller and Kenneth A. Dodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Sara B. Heller, Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig and Ilyana Kuziemko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Lance Lochner and Justin McCrary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Challenges and Policy Steven Raphael and Jeffrey Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Lessons from Teenage Childbearing Seth G. Sanders, Terrie E. Moffitt and Stephen A. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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August 22, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9780226115139
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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720
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55 line drawings, 41 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780226115139
Keywords for this book
crime; criminals; justice; injustice; law enforcement; strategy; legal issues; expenses; money; monetary; finance; financial; economy; economics; resources; criminal; safety; public; social; policy; reform; systemic; government; policies; drugs; prevention; agencies; congress; essay collection; prison; anthology; institutional; fines; regulation; poverty
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Professional and scholarly;
