Economic Analysis and Efficiency in Policing, Criminal Ju...
Manning, Matthew / Johnson, Shane D. / Vorsina, Margarita / Wong, Gabriel T. W. / Tilley, Nick
A key part of the evidence base for practitioners and policymakers includes the costs of interventions and the returns yielded from incurring those costs. However, to date crime reduction work economic analyses have been uncommon and even when undertaken have been partial, technically weak and insufficiently informed by economic theory. This book explains what economic analysis is, why it is important, and forms it can take. Costs are importan...