Controlling crime : strategies and tradeoffs / edited by Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary.

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished either with fewer resources or by investing those...

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Contributors: Cook, Philip J., 1946-, Ludwig, Jens, McCrary, Justin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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