title: The Economics of Crime: An Introduction to Rational Crime Analysis
author:  Harold Winter 
description: <P><STRONG>Harold Winter</STRONG> is Associate Professor at Ohio University. His previous book <EM>Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues</EM> is available from University of Chicago Press (2005). </P>
zlib_text: The Economics of Crime
  Since Gary Becker’s seminal article in the late 1960s, the economic analysis of
  crime has blossomed, from an interesting side ﬁeld within law and economics,
  into a mature stand-alone subdiscipline that has been embraced by many well
  respected academic economists. Wide-ranging and accessible, this is the most
  up-to-date textbook on the subject, taking current economic research and making
  it accessible to undergraduates and other interested readers. Without using graphs
  or mathematical equations, Winter combines theory and empirical evidence with
  controversial examples from the news media. Topics discussed include:
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  the death penalty
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  racial proﬁling
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  rational drug addiction and drug legalization
  •
  private crime deterrence
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  gun control
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  the privatization of prisons
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  juvenile crime
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  alternative social reforms to deter crime.
  By requiring no previous knowledge of economics, not only is this book a perfect
  choice for students new to the study of economics and p