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2005
This highly innovative and intriguing book applies principles of microeconomics to unusual settings to inspire students, teachers and scholars alike in the ‘dismal science'. Leading experts show how economics reaches into the strangest of places and throws light onto the occasionally dark side of human nature.
Bruce L. Benson, Simon W. Bowmaker
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This highly innovative and intriguing book applies principles of microeconomics to unusual settings to inspire students, teachers and scholars alike in the ‘dismal science'. Leading experts show how economics reaches into the strangest of places and throws light onto the occasionally dark side of human nature.
Bruce L. Benson, Simon W. Bowmaker
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The Economic Epidemiology of Crime
The Journal of Law and Economics, 1996Economic analysis of infectious diseases emphasizes the self-correcting character of epidemics, as rising risk of infection causes potential victims to take self-protective measures. We apply the analysis to crime, showing how rational potential victims of crime will take increased self-protective measures in response to rising crime rates, causing ...
Posner, Richard A., Philipson, Tomas J.
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Quaderni di criminologia clinica, 1977
Economic crime, often also referred to as white collar crime, is one of the most incidious and predatory of offenses. Unlike street crime, for which there may well be some protection, the average citizen is completely at the mercy of the perpetrators of economic crimes. The concept of white collar crime was first identified by Edwin H. Sutherland.
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Economic crime, often also referred to as white collar crime, is one of the most incidious and predatory of offenses. Unlike street crime, for which there may well be some protection, the average citizen is completely at the mercy of the perpetrators of economic crimes. The concept of white collar crime was first identified by Edwin H. Sutherland.
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Economic Crime: Does Personality Matter?
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2003Since the publication of Edwin Sutherland's classical study, White Collar Crime, personality has been treated as completely irrelevant as a cause or as a correlating variable in studies of economic crime. This article questions that thesis. In an ongoing Swedish project studying economic crime in the areas of construction, engineering, and the music ...
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Crime, inequality and economic growth
2005The idea that the level of criminal activity in a society is strictly related to the degree of economic development, and to the distribution of wealth among individuals and classes of individuals, is certainly not new, neither it is really counterintuitive.
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Crimes of Managers and Entrepreneurs: Economic Crimes
1988Crimes against the communist economic order and economic relations are among the most publicized, widespread and persistent crimes in all communist countries. Since their commission normally involves at least some measure of corruption, it is practically impossible to clearly separate these two types of criminal activity in any systematic analysis of ...
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2000
Economics examines crime as a special case of maximising behaviour. The literature has developed separately from the economic analysis of law as a part of mainstream applied economics, as economists have mostly concerned themselves, as does this chapter, with the economics of criminal deterrence.
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Economics examines crime as a special case of maximising behaviour. The literature has developed separately from the economic analysis of law as a part of mainstream applied economics, as economists have mostly concerned themselves, as does this chapter, with the economics of criminal deterrence.
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This highly innovative and intriguing book applies principles of microeconomics to unusual settings to inspire students, teachers and scholars alike in the ‘dismal science'. Leading experts show how economics reaches into the strangest of places and throws light onto the occasionally dark side of human nature.
Bruce L. Benson, Simon W. Bowmaker
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Bruce L. Benson, Simon W. Bowmaker
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