Anthony M. Yezer

Economics of Crime and Enforcement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economics of Crime and Enforcement is an innovative book which is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest developments in the field and features new chapters on behavioral economics and crime and crime and large cities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032861623
• ISBN-10: 1032861622
• Artikelnr.: 72543293

Autorenporträt

Anthony M. Yezer is Professor of Economics at the George Washington University. He holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T, a MSc. From the London School of Economics and BA from Dartmouth College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Fundamental Economics of Crime and Enforcement 1. The
Economic Rationale for the Criminal Law 2. Benefit/Cost Analysis of the
Enforcement Decision 3. Measuring the Amount and Cost of Crime Part II:
Applying Economic Theory to Crime 4. The Market for "Victimless" Crime 5.
The Market for Crime with Victims 6. Risk Preferences and the Supply of
Offenses 7. The State Preference Model and the Economics of Tax Evasion 8.
Modeling Neighborhood Crime and Self-Enforcement 9. Enforcement Games Part
III: Use of Statistical Analysis in Research on Crime 10. Behavioral
Economics and Crime 11. Statistical Problems in Testing Models of Crime
Part IV: Economics of Specific Enforcement Issues 12. Implicit Market
Measures of the Benefits of Crime Control 13. Economics Of Incarceration:
Deterrence and Incapacitation 14. Economics Of Three-Strikes Legislation
15. Juvenile Crime 16. Neighborhood Gangs 17. Economic Effects of Private
Enforcement 18. Crime The Broken Windows Hypothesis 19. Crime and Economic
Development 20. Guns and Crime 21. Drugs and Crime 22. Economics of
Profiling and Prediction 23. The Special Case of Murder. Glossary.
Bibliography.