The Economics of Crime
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JEL codes 1 Int roduct ion 2 Measures and magni tudes 2.1 Participation in crime and offenses per criminal 3 Cr ime in a market context 3.1 The market 3.2 The market model and incapacitation 4 Ev idence on the supply o f c r ime 4.1 The effect of legitimate opportunities: unemployment 4.2 The porous boundary between legal and illegal work 4.3 The effect of legitimate opportunities: earnings inequality and legitimate earnings 4.4 The effect of sanctions 4.5 Social interactions and the geographic concentration of crime 5 Does c r ime pay? cr iminal earnings and risk 5.1 Do incentives explain the age and sex pattern? 5.2 Future legitimate economic outcomes 6 Cr ime prevent ion activi t ies 6.1 Specific crime prevention programs 6.2 Measuring the benefits from crime reduction 6.3 Individual efforts to prevent crime 6.4 Partial privatization of criminal justice activities? 7 Conclus ion: h o w big is the economics contr ibut ion? Refe rences 3530 3530 3530 3533 3536 3538 3539 3540 3541 3542 3543 3545 3546 3549 3551 3553 3554 3556 3557 3558 3560 3561 3562 3563 Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Edited by O. AshenJ~lter and D. Card © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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