@inbook{6cd4ff025f3c40c6b18d557b43d811f1,
title = "Crime economics in its fifth decade",
abstract = "The economics of crime has been an active field of research for nearly 50 years. Among its contributions to the study of crime and crime control are these: a normative framework for evaluation of criminal justice policies; use of sophisticated quantitative methods to analyze the causes of crime and the effects of crime-control measures in this framework; a conception of criminal behavior as individual choice, influenced by perceived consequences; and the aggregation of individual choices to a systems framework for understanding crime rates and patterns. Thus the economists have brought with them a strong presumption that criminal behavior can be usefully modeled using the same conceptual apparatus that economic science has developed for risky decision making, labor supply, consumer and firm behaviour, and even market structure and performance. This “technology transfer” to the criminal domain, initiated by gary becker in 1968, has proven productive for both scholars and policymakers.",
author = "P.J. Cook and S. Machin and O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.7551/mitpress/9780262019613.003.0001",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-262-01961-3",
series = "CESifo Seminar Series",
pages = "1--16",
editor = "P.J. Cook and S. Machin and O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni",
booktitle = "Lessons from the economics of crime",
publisher = "MIT Press",
}