Economics of criminal law
By: edited by Steven D. Levitt and Thomas J. Miles.
Contributors: Levitt, Steven D.; Miles, Thomas J.
Series: Economic approaches to law -- 17
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9781845427832
Subjects: Criminal statistics -- United States; Criminal law -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Statistical methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime and punishment : an economic approach / Gary S. Becker (1968); title: The optimum enforcement of laws / George J. Stigler (1970); title: The Optimal tradeoff between the probability and magnitude of fines / A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell (1975); title: What do alternative sanctions mean? / Dan M. Kahan (1996); title: An economic theory of the criminal law / Richard A. Posner (1985); title: Criminal law and the optimal use of nonmonetary sanctions as a deterrent / Steven Shavell (1985); title: The private enforcement of law / William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (1975); title: Criminal procedure as a market system / Frank H. Easterbrook (1983); title: On the feasibility of identifying the crime function in a simultaneous model of crime tates and sanction levels / Franklin M. Fisher and Daniel Nagin (1978); title: The effect of prison population size on crime rates: evidence from prison overcrowding litigation / Steven D. Levitt (1996); title: Using sentence enhancements to distinguish between deterrence and incapacitation / Daniel Kessler and Steven D. Levitt (1999); title: Crime and social interactions / Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and José A. Scheinkman (1996); title: The effects of the Brady Act on gun violence / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig (2003).; title: Nondiscretionary concealed weapons laws : a case study of statistics, standards of proof, and public policy / Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III (1999); title: Uses and abuses of empirical data in the death penalty debate / John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers (2005); title: The economic case against drug prohibition / Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel (1995); title: The market for illegal goods : the case of drugs / Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Michael Grossman (2006); title: Measuring interjudge sentencing disparity : before and after the Federal Sentencing Guidelines / James M. Anderson, Jeffrey R. Kling and Kate Stith (1999); title: The impact of legalized abortion on crime / John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt (2001).