| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 241 pages). |
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CESifo seminar series |
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CESifo seminar series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Crime economics in its fifth decade / Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni -- COPS and cuffs / Emily Greene Owens -- Drug prohibition and its alternatives / John J. Donohue III -- Mechanism experiments for crime policy / Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan -- What works in reducing re-offending? / Aurélie Ouss -- The young prisoner's dilemma : juvenile : recidivism in Germany / Stefan Pichler and Daniel Römer -- What works in reducing hooliganism? / Mikael Priks -- Crime and immigration : what do we know? / Brian Bell and Stephen Machin -- Organized crime, violence, and the quality of politicians : evidence from Southern Italy / Paolo Pinotti -- Centralized versus decentralized police hiring in Italy and the United States / Paolo Buonnano and Giovanni Mastrobunoni -- The "Program of Integration and Management in Public Safety" in Minas Gerais, Brazil : a descriptive analysis / Rodrigo Soares and Igor Viveiros. |
| Summary |
Reporting on research in the United States, Europe, and South America, this book discusses such topics as a cost-benefit analysis of additional police hiring, the testing of innovative policy interventions through field experiments, imprisonment and recidivism rates, incentives and disincentives for sports hooliganism and much more. |
| Subject |
Crime -- Economic aspects.
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Crime prevention.
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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Crime -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00882991
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Crime prevention. (OCoLC)fst00883055
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
(OCoLC)fst00883537
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| Added Author |
Cook, Philip J., 1946- editor.
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Machin, Stephen, editor.
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Marie, Olivier, editor.
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Mastrobuoni, Giovanni, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lessons from the economics of crime 9780262019613 (DLC) 2013004750 (OCoLC)828057623 |
| ISBN |
9781461944645 (electronic bk.) |
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1461944643 (electronic bk.) |
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1299939090 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299939097 (electronic bk.) |
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0262314630 (electronic bk.) |
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9780262314633 (electronic bk.) |
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9780262314640 (electronic bk.) |
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0262314649 (electronic bk.) |
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