Controlling crime strategies and tradeoffs
by
 
Cook, Philip J., 1946-

Title
Controlling crime strategies and tradeoffs

Author
Cook, Philip J., 1946-

Publication Information
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Physical Description
ix, 624 p. : ill.

Series
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
 
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

General Note
Papers of the NBER conference hosted by the Berkeley Law School on January 15-16, 2010.

Contents
Economical crime control / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Criminal justice reform. The deterrent effect of imprisonment / Steven N. Durlauf and Daniel S. Nagin ; Institutional requirements for effective imposition of fines / Anne Morrison Piehl and Geoffrey Williams ; comment: David Alan Sklansky ; If drug treatment works so well, why are so many drug users in prison? / Harold Pollack, Peter Reuter, and Eric Sevigny ; comment: Jonathan P. Caulkins ; Mental health treatment and criminal justice outcomes / Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire ; comment: Jeffrey Swanson -- Regulation of criminal opportunities and criminogenic commodities. Rethinking America's illegal drug policy / John J. Donohue III, Benjamin Ewing and David Peloquin ; comment: Robert J. MacCoun ; Alcohol regulation and crime / Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin ; The role of private action in controlling crime / Philip J. Cook and John MacDonald -- Social policy. Decreasing delinquency, criminal behavior, and recidivism by intervening on psychological factors other than cognitive ability: a review of the intervention literature / Patrick L. Hill, Brent W. Roberts, Jeffrey T. Grogger, Jonathan Guryan, and Karen Sixkiller ; comment: Kenneth A. Dodge ; Family income, neighborhood poverty, and crime / Sara B. Heller, Brian A. Jacob, and Jens Ludwig ; comment: Ilyana Kuziemko ; Education policy and crime / Lance Lochner ; comment: Justin McCrary ; Improving employment prospects for former prison inmates: challenges and policy / Steven Raphael ; comment: Jeffrey Smith ; Crime and the family: lessons from teenage childbearing / Seth G. Sanders ; comment: Terrie E. Moffitt and Stephen A. Ross.

Subject Term
Crime prevention -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
 
Crime prevention -- United States -- Cost control -- Congresses.

Genre
Electronic books.

Added Author
Cook, Philip J., 1946-
 
Ludwig, Jens.
 
McCrary, Justin.

Added Corporate Author
ProQuest (Firm)

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