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The Historical Development of Public Policing, Prosecution and Punishment

In: Handbook on the Economics of Crime

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  • Nicholas A. Curott
  • Edward Peter Stringham

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While few economists analyzed criminal behaviour and the criminal justice process before Gary Becker’s seminal 1968 paper, an enormous body of economic research on crime has since been produced. This insightful and comprehensive Handbook reviews and extends much of this important resulting research.

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  • Nicholas A. Curott & Edward Peter Stringham, 2010. "The Historical Development of Public Policing, Prosecution and Punishment," Chapters, in: Bruce L. Benson & Paul R. Zimmerman (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Crime, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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