Economics of criminal law / edited by Steven D. Levitt and Thomas J. Miles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levitt, Steven D.

Miles, Thomas J., 1968-

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Economic approaches to law ; 17.

Economic approaches to law ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal statistics--United States.

Criminal statistics.

Criminal law--Economic aspects--United States--Statistical methods.

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (704 p.) : ill. ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2008.

Summary:

The volume presents the seminal articles in the economic analysis of the criminal law. The articles include the path-breaking theoretical economic analyses of criminal behavior and the leading empirical tests of these theories. The volume also contains the most prominent economic analyses of the substantive doctrines of criminal law and criminal procedure. Other articles present influential applications of economic concepts and evidence to perennial issues in criminal law and criminal justice, such as gun control, drug prohibition, and sentencing policy. An introduction by the volume editors provides a comprehensive overview of the works included. Economics of Criminal Law will be an essential source of reference for scholars, graduate students in both law and in economics, and practitioners.

Contents:

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Ayres, Ian and Donohue, III John J. (2003a), 'Shooting Down the "More Guns, Less Crime" Hypothesis', Stanford Law Review, 55, 1193-312

Ayres, Ian and Donohue III, John J. (2003b), 'The Latest Misfires in Support of the "More Guns, Less Crime" Hypothesis', Stanford Law Review, 55, 1371-98

Cook, Philip J., Moore, Michael H. and Braga, Anthony A. (2002), 'Gun Control', in Wilson, J.Q. and Petersilia, J. (eds), Crime, San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 291-330

Duggan, Mark (2000), 'More Guns, More Crime', Journal of Political Economy, 109(5), 1086-114

Ehrlich, Isaac (1975), 'The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death', American Economic Review, 65, 397-417

Ehrlich, Isaac (1977), 'Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Some Further Thoughts and Additional Evidence', Journal of Political Economy, 85, 741-88

Lott Jr., John R. and Mustard, David B. (1996), 'Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns', Journal of Legal Studies, 26(1), 1-68

Lott Jr., John R. (1998), 'More Guns, Less Crime', University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Ludwig, Jens (1998), 'Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data', International Review of Law and Economics, 18, 239-54

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)

Gary S. Becker (1968), 'Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach', Journal of Political Economy, 76 (2), March-April, 169-217

George J. Stigler (1970), 'The Optimum Enforcement of Laws', Journal of Political Economy, 78 (3), May-June, 526-36

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell (1979), 'The Optimal Tradeoff between the Probability and Magnitude of Fines', American Economic Review, 69 (5), December, 880-91

Dan M. Kahan (1996), 'What Do Alternative Sanctions Mean?', University of Chicago Law Review, 63, 591-653

Richard A. Posner (1985), 'An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law', Columbia Law Review, 85 (6), October, 1193-231

Steven Shavell (1985), 'Criminal Law and the Optimal Use of Nonmonetary Sanctions as a Deterrent', Columbia Law Review, 85 (6), 1232-62

William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (1975), 'The Private Enforcement of Law', Journal of Legal Studies, 4 (1), January, 1-46

Frank H. Easterbrook (1983), 'Criminal Procedure as a Market System', Journal of Legal Studies, XII (2), June, 289-332

Franklin M. Fisher and Daniel Nagin (1978), 'On the Feasibility of Identifying the Crime Function in a Simultaneous Model of Crime Rates and Sanction Levels', in Alfred Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen and Daniel Nagin (eds), Deterrence and Incapacitation: Estimating the Effects of Criminal Sanctions on Crime Rates, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 361-99

Steven D. Levitt (1996), 'The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXI (2), May, 319-51

Daniel Kessler and Steven D. Levitt (1999), 'Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish Between Deterrence and Incapacitation', Journal of Law and Economics, XLII (1, Part 2), April, 343-63

Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and José A. Scheinkman (1996), 'Crime and Social Interactions', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXI (2), May, 507-48

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig (2003), 'The Effects of the Brady Act on Gun Violence', in Bernard E. Harcourt (ed.), Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America, Chapter 12, New York and London: New York University Press, 283-98

Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III (1999), 'Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Laws: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards of Proof, and Public Policy', American Law and Economics Review, 1 (1 and 2), Fall, 436-70

John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers (2005), 'Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate', Stanford Law Review, 58, December, 791-845

Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel (1995), 'The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9 (4), Fall, 175-92

Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Michael Grossman (2006), 'The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs', Journal of Political Economy, 114 (1), February, 38-60

James M. Anderson, Jeffrey R. Kling and Kate Stith (1999), 'Measuring Interjudge Sentencing Disparity: Before and After the Federal Sentencing Guidelines', Journal of Law and Economics, XLII (1, Part 2), April, 271-307

John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt (2001), 'The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVI (2), May, 379-420.

Notes:

The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78536-680-7

OCLC:

173720568