The economics of crime / Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madjd-Sadjadi, Zagros, 1968- author.

Series:

2013 digital library.

Economics collection. 2163-7628

Economics collection, 2163-7628

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Economic aspects.

Crime.

Crime prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will guide readers to an understanding of effective public policy designed to reduce criminality. By understanding how incentive mechanisms affect criminal behavior, business managers may use this information either to reduce criminal activity in their own enterprises or to understand how unethical business decisions affect the wider society. As we always do in such circumstances, we must make sacrifices to balance the competing interests. To accomplish this with a minimum of disruption, at the end of many chapters there is a section called " For the Economist " where additional material of a more advanced mathematical and theoretical nature, which tends to be more tangential to the non-economists, is provided. In so doing, economics students, who typically have an advanced knowledge of modeling, can be trained in a parallel fashion to those for whom economics is a new field and, as such, may have only had a high school or introductory level exposure to economic science, if any at all.

Contents:

About the author

Preface

Introduction: Why should businesspeople care about crime?

1. What does economics have to do with crime anyway?

2. Are criminals rational? Gary Becker's rational criminal thesis

3. Game theory and the victim/perpetrator calculus

4. Organized crime

5. "Victimless crimes"

6. Crimes against property

7. Crimes against persons

8. Public policy

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Part of: 2013 digital library.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 16, 2013).

ISBN:

1-60649-583-6

OCLC:

865549375