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Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime (Studies in Economic Theory) 2nd Edition

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  • Series: Studies in Economic Theory (Book 12)
  • Hardcover: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (July 21, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3540240098
  • ISBN-13: 978-3540240099
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsTowards a More Cooperative Society
By Steve Barney on January 9, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I highly recommend this book and ask you to help me bring it to the attention of our law makers and legal authorities. This is an important book for our times, in my humble opinion, about the ironic reality that some of our laws create rational motives to commit crime in spite of any well meaning intention to the contrary. In essence, Sieberg contributes to the development of a field of social research which shows the way towards a more cooperative society, which is exactly what one Princeton University philosopher, Peter Singer, recently called for in his book, _A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation_ (see pg. 47).
Sieberg is full of surprises. She ignores the emotional and moral aspects of a few select current issues, and goes straight to the rational self interested calculations of the hypothetical individual who is considering whether to be content to earn the going legal wage (perhaps slave wages), or to commit a potentially much more profitable crime. That list of current issues includes mandatory prison sentencing, the three strikes and you're out laws, the privatization of prisons, prostitution, drugs, gangs, and gun control. On the basis of this analysis she makes a few suggestions as to what may be better and more rational legal policy; for example, regarding prison sentencing and alternative means of punishing criminals, she concludes with the following:
"This analysis indicates that a hybrid policy of imprisoning violent criminals and imposing alternative sentences on nonviolent criminals would be superior in terms of fulfilling society's goals. The maintenance of the prisons for violent offenders would provide protection of the public, both by incapacitation of those who are violent and by deterring others from the use of violence.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsTowards a More Cooperative Society
By Steve Barney on January 7, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I highly recommend this book and ask you to help me bring it to the attention of our law makers and legal authorities. This is an important book for our times, in my humble opinion. It is about the ironic reality that some of our laws create rational motives to commit crime, in spite of any well meaning intention to reduce crime. In essence, Sieberg contributes to the development of a field of social research which shows the way towards a more cooperative society, which is exactly what one Princeton University philosopher, Peter Singer, recently called for in his book, _A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation_ (see pg. 47).
Sieberg is full of surprises. She ignores the emotional and moral aspects of a few select c urrent issues, and goes straight to the rational self interested calculations of the hypothetical individual who is considering whether to be content to earn the going legal wage (perhaps slave wages), or to commit a potentially much more profitable crime. That list of current issues includes mandatory prison sentencing, the three strikes and you're out laws, the privatization of prisons, prostitution, drugs, gangs, and gun control. On the basis of this analysis she makes a few suggestions as to what may be better and more rational legal policy; for example, regarding prison sentencing and alternative means of punishing criminals, she concludes with the following:
This analysis indicates that a hybrid policy of imprisoning violent criminals and imposing alternative sentences on nonviolent criminals would be superior in terms of fulfilling society's goals. The maintenance of the prisons for violent offenders would provide protection of the public, both by incapacitation of those who are violent and by deterring others from the use of violence.Read more ›
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It's very useful to learn the law and economics
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