Controlling crime : strategies and tradeoffs / edited by Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary.

Other author Cook, Philip J., 1946- editor.
Other author Ludwig, Jens, editor.
Other author McCrary, Justin, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011, ©2011.
Descriptionix, 624 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Crime prevention--Economic aspects. --United States. --Congresses.
Crime prevention--United States. --Cost control. --Congresses.

SeriesNational Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research) ^A224169
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.
General notePapers of the NBER conference hosted by the Berkeley Law School on January 15-16, 2010.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2011004667
ISBN9780226115122 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0226115127 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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