Product Description: In the current economic climate, this book could not be more timely. One of the world′s leading experts explores the connections between crime and economic conditions, linking the formal economy to the operation of illegal markets and both, in turn, to changes in the forms and levels of crime over time...read more

Since Gary Becker’s seminal article in the late sixties, the economic analysis of crime has blossomed, from an interesting side field within law and economics, into a mature stand-alone sub-discipline that has been embraced by many well-respected academic economists. Wide ranging and accessible, this is the most up-to-date textbook in this area, taking current economic research and making it accessible to undergraduates and other interested readers. Without use of graphs or mathematical equations, Winter combines theory and empirical evidence with controversial examples from the news media. Topics discussed include:   the death penalty, racial profiling, rational drug addiction and drug legalization, private crime deterrence, gun control, the privatization of prisons, juvenile crime, alternative social reforms to deter crime   By requiring no previous knowledge of economics, not only is this book a perfect choice for students new to the study of economics and public policy, it will also be of interest and accessible to students of criminology, law, political science, and other disciplines interested in the study of crime topics. By emphasizing the benefits and costs of social policy to deter crime, The Economics of Crime can be enjoyed by anyone who follows current public policy debate over one of society’s most contentious issues.

Based on interviews with survivors and victims' families, an award-winning journalist brings to light the tragic story of a group of 74 hopeful Mexican immigrants?19 of which died?attempting to illegally cross the border into the U.S. crammed inside a sweltering truck trailer and abandoned near Victoria, Texas, by the leader of a ''human trafficking cell.' 30,000 first printing.

An account of the May 2003 incident in which nineteen illegal immigrants lost their lives while trying to cross the Mexican-American border discusses the trafficking operations of Karla Chavez, who abandoned the victims in a sweltering truck in Texas, in an investigation that offers insight into why people enter agreements with traffickers and the dangers facing illegal immigrants today. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: An analysis of criminal behavior from the perspectives of rational choice theory leading to suggestions for a criminal policy. Previous edition sold 900 copies world wide since its release in June 2001.

A former economist for McKinsey & Co. shares a dark view of the effects of globalization, offering details of the loot of the Phillipines by the Marcos family, the financial collapse of third world nations, money laundering schemes, drug smuggling, and massive tax evasion, among other sins. Reprint.

"Never in history has there been a black market tamed from the supply side. From Prohibition to prostitution, from gambling to recreational drugs, the story is the same. Supply-side controls act to encourage production and increase profits. At best a few intermediaries get knocked out of business. But as long as demand persists, the market is served more or less as before. In the meantime, failure to 'win the war' [against crime] becomes a pretext for increasing police budgets, expanding law enforcement powers, and pouring more money into the voracious maw of the prison-industrial complex."―from the IntroductionR. T. Naylor specializes in the study of smuggling, black markets, and international financial crime. Wages of Crime takes the reader into the shadowy underworld of modern criminal business―arms trafficking, gold smuggling, money laundering, and terrorist financing. Naylor dissects the schemes by which illegal entrepreneurs disguise their acts, manage their take, and eventually enjoy the loot. The author asserts that much of what police, press, politicians, and the public understand about international crime is based on myth and misrepresentation. A fully revised final chapter covering events since the book's initial publication in early 2002 brings Wages of Crime up to date.

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Product Description: This authoritative three volume set brings together the most important published papers on the economic analysis of corruption and illegal markets. It ranges from theoretical issues explaining the nature of corruption to analogies between governments regulating legal markets and organised crime ruling over illegal markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work examines the crucial role played by unofficial and underground activities in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe and new independent states. Countries undergoing radical transformations from socialism to capitalism experience fundamental changes in institutional rules governing property rights, government regulations, taxation and the appropriate conduct of public service...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book uses economic theory to analyze the different aspects of organized crime. The theory of rent-seeking is adopted to help understand the origin of criminal organizations, while modern industrial organization theory is used to explain the design of internal rules...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Investigating the nature of price behaviour in illegal markets, this study encompasses a variety of market types. These include legal and illegal drug markets, black markets in foreign exchange, and illegal immigration. The book reaches conclusions about price volatility in these illegal markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exploring the nature, extent and consequences of the cultivation of marijuana in the United States, this book focuses principally on the 49 counties in Kentucky that form part of Appalachia.

Product Description: Difficult to access for scholarly study, organized crime is possibly best documented in judicial findings and in legislative reports based on long-term investigations and public hearings. In this book, Alan Block has assembled a cross-section of these reports...read more

Product Description: The author examines why the victims of economic recessionóthe unemployed or those on low incomesómight turn to crime, and why government and petty officialdom respond by imposing more and more repressive measures. Box draws upon examples from the United States and Great Britain but his arguments are applicable to all industrialized nations...read more

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