While few economists analyzed criminal behaviour and the criminal justice process before Gary Becker's seminal 1968 paper, an enormous body of economic research on crime has since been produced. This insightful and comprehensive Handbook reviews and extends much of this important resulting research.

The Handbook on the Economics of Crime provides cutting-edge and specially commissioned contributions dealing with theoretical and empirical modeling of criminal choice and behavior, including Isaac Ehrlich's exposition of what he labels the `market, or equilibrium, model of crime'. The public production and allocation of various criminal justice services is also examined, as are significant components of the costs and consequences of crime. Finally, current debates and controversies in the economics of crime literature are considered, with the expert contributors offering suggestions and guidance for future research.

With a broad set of crime-related topics examined from an economic perspective, this extensive Handbook will be welcomed by academic researchers and graduate students of the economics of crime and criminology as well as legal scholars focusing on criminal law.

About the Author
Edited by Bruce L. Benson, DeVoe Moore and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, Economics Department Chair and Courtesy Professor of Law, Florida State University, US and Paul R. Zimmerman, Economist in Antitrust I, United States Federal Trade Commission, US

Reviews
''This Handbook is a very stimulating collection of overview essays and new researches on the economics of crime. . . They [the editors] make an excellent selection of the most important issues. . .' -- Emma Galli, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice



Book Information
ISBN 9781849804318
Author Bruce L. Benson
Format Paperback
Page Count 552
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd