Liza Vertinsky

A Law and Economics Approach to Criminal Gangs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1999. This book provides a law and economics approach towards criminal gangs which integrates the tools of economic modelling with criminal law in order to understand and address a contemporary law enforcement problem. The book draws upon ideas from economics, law and law enforcement to investigate the nature and organizational structure of criminal gangs. Law and economics are employed in varying combinations and at varying levels of specificity to generate insights into the organization and behaviour of criminal gangs. These insights are applied to evaluate alternative legal approaches and to inform the design of a new criminal law approach towards criminal gangs. Attention is focused on the organization of criminal street gangs, both because the growth and increasing sophistication of these gangs offer special challenges for law enforcement and because of the potential contributions which such an understanding could yield for economists who have traditionally focused on the organizational structure of legitimate enterprises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781138609341
• ISBN-10: 113860934X
• Artikelnr.: 59843786

Autorenporträt

Liza Vertinsky

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Law and Economics Approach to Group-based Criminal Laws and Criminal
Street Gangs 1. The American criminal law approach to group-based crimes 2.
An economic model of a criminal street gang 3. Applications to common
group-based criminal statutes 4. Conclusion 2. Modeling Criminal Street
Gangs as Organizations 1.Survey of economic approaches to collective action
with application to street gangs: i) in search of an economic methodology
for group behaviour, ii) application of economic organization theories to
street gangs, iii) conclusion 2. Criminal street gangs as institutions for
enforcing agreements: i) self-enforceable agreements in extended
relationships, ii) economic model of a gang as an institution for enforcing
agreements, iii) conclusion 3. The Economic Organization of Drug Selling
Gangs 1. Contemporary theories of gangs and gang organization 2. Economic
model of gang organization 3.Applications of results to observed variations
in gang organization 4.Conclusion.