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Title Lessons from the economics of crime : what reduces offending? / edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series CESifo seminar series
CESifo seminar series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- "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.
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Subject Crime -- Economic aspects.
Crime -- Economic aspects.
Crime prevention.
Crime prevention.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cook, Philip J., 1946- editor.
Machin, Stephen, editor.
Marie, Olivier, editor.
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Lessons from the economics of crime 9780262019613 (DLC) 2013004750 (OCoLC)828057623
ISBN 9781461944645 (electronic book)
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