9780262019613 - Lessons from the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending? (CESifo Seminar Series) (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, [2013]. Hardcover. Dustjacket. vi, 241 pp. - 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. 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. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780262019613. Keywords : CRIMINOLOGY,