A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime

Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, Juan Vargas (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

414 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-3898-6 (ISBN)

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A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable progress made in recent years in the economic analysis of individual and organised crime. Such progress is related to the so-called “credibility revolution” as well as to the cross-fertilization of economics and other social sciences such as criminology, sociology and political science. With contributions from some of the leading scholars in the economics of crime, the volume highlights a variety of topics, conceptual frameworks and empirical approaches, thus providing a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments of the field.

Emphasising the importance of designing crime-reducing policies that are guided by rigorous empirical analyses, the contributions leverage the availability of novel and administrative micro-data, the use of research designs that unveil causal relationships, and the interdisciplinarity of approaches and theoretical frameworks. The Modern Guide moves through four parts: first investigating the role of the police and their effectiveness, then moving on to look at the distinct socio-economic factors that may induce individuals to commit crimes, followed by issues related to crime in specific groups including migrants, women and racial minorities, and finally turning from individual to organized crime.

This Modern Guide will be an invigorating read for economics and criminology students and scholars looking at the relationship between the two fields. Policy makers will also benefit from the application of interdisciplinary theory to empirical research in the chapters.

Edited by Paolo Buonanno, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy, Paolo Vanin, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy and Juan Vargas, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Contents:

1 The changing nature of economics of crime 1
Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin and Juan Vargas
2 The economics of policing and crime 12
Federico Masera
3 The geography of crime and policing 30
Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens and Derek Christopher
4 Broken windows policing and crime: Evidence from
80 Colombian cities 55
Daniel Mejía, Ervyn Norza, Santiago Tobón and
Martín Vanegas-Arias
5 Decarceration and crime: California’s experience 88
Patricio Dominguez, Magnus Lofstrom and
Steven Raphael
6 A note on electronic monitoring and some challenges to its
implementation 135
Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
7 Education and crime: What we know and where do we go? 150
Joel Carr, Olivier Marie and Sunčica Vujić
8 Unbundling the relationship between economic shocks and crime 184
Eduardo Ferraz, Rodrigo Soares and Juan Vargas
9 Social prevention of crime: Alternatives to policing measures
in an urban context 205
Magdalena Domínguez and Daniel Montolio
10 Peer effects in crime 227
Evelina Gavrilova and Marcello Puca
11 New evidence on immigration and crime 243
Paolo Pinotti and Sandra V. Rozo
12 Females in crime 265
Evelina Gavrilova
13 Racial bias in the criminal justice system 286
Jennifer L. Doleac
14 Gangs and organized crime 305
Ben Lessing and Maria Micaela Sviatschi
15 Organised crime, elections and public policies 320
Pasquale Accardo, Giuseppe De Feo and Giacomo De Luca
16 What predicts corruption? 345
Emanuele Colonnelli, Jorge Gallego and Mounu Prem
17 Organised crime, state and the legitimate monopoly of violence 374
Tommy E. Murphy and Paolo Vanin

Index 395

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Modern Guides
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-0353-3898-X / 103533898X
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-3898-6 / 9781035338986
Zustand	Neuware