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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaclz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT contains the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Center for Study of Public Choice of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The conference, held in the summer of 1972, sought to explore the uses and limits of economics in the understanding and prevention of crime. This volume is divided into four parts, and, in addition to the main papers mentioned below, each includes the comments of discussants of those papers. The first part concerns criminal motivations. It opens with Paul B. Horton's paper, Problems in Understanding Criminal Motives, which deals with the difficulty of determining from disparate data the true reasons for criminal activity. William E. Cobb then seeks to reconcile the sickness and economic explanations of criminality. Gregory Krohm follows with a consideration of The Pecuniary Incentives of Property Crime, and in the final paper of this part, J. Patrick Gunning, Jr. seeks to answer the question, How Profitable is Burglary? Part Two considers the effectiveness of punishment as a deterrent to crime. Llad Phillips makes The Case for Deterrence, and Charles R. Tittle develops his view that very little is known about the role of sanctions in generating social order. He concludes by arguing for a vigorous effort to fill in the information gaps on this important subject. The third part is a consideration of organized crime. It opens with James M. Buchanan's A Defense of Organized Crime? which suggests that criminal firms may not be so bad after all, and that perhaps the proper target for law enforcement officials would be the unorganized competitors of the crime conglomerates. Next, Francis A. J. lanni provides an inside look at the power structure of a real New York organized crime family, which, contrary to some theories, indicates that such institutions operate quite differently from legitimate businesses. In the final paper of this part, Paul H. Rubin develops an Economic Theory of the Criminal Firm, considering the kinds of activities criminal firms can be expected to engage in if they are rational maximizers. The final part deals with foreign criminal procedure. Jan St6pin reviews the development and current state of European criminal procedure and suggests possible lessons for students and officials of the American criminal justice system. John Ll. J. Edwards then offers a look at English criminal procedure, with an emphasis on recent reforms which may have some relevance to American experience. $4.00 ISBN 978-0-8447-2041-8 90000 9 780844 720418 (-0 cz- a conference sponsored by THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Edited by Simon Rottenberg

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