Economics of criminal law

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crime and punishment : an economic approach / Gary S. Becker (1968) -- The optimum enforcement of laws / George J. Stigler (1970) -- The Optimal tradeoff between the probability and magnitude of fines / A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell (1975) -- What do alternative sanctions mean? / Dan M. Kahan (1996) -- An economic theory of the criminal law / Richard A. Posner (1985) -- Criminal law and the optimal use of nonmonetary sanctions as a deterrent / Steven Shavell (1985) -- The private enforcement of law / William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (1975) -- Criminal procedure as a market system / Frank H. Easterbrook (1983) -- On the feasibility of identifying the crime function in a simultaneous model of crime tates and sanction levels / Franklin M. Fisher and Daniel Nagin (1978) -- The effect of prison population size on crime rates: evidence from prison overcrowding litigation / Steven D. Levitt (1996) -- Using sentence enhancements to distinguish between deterrence and incapacitation / Daniel Kessler and Steven D. Levitt (1999) -- Crime and social interactions / Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and José A. Scheinkman (1996) -- The effects of the Brady Act on gun violence / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig (2003).

Nondiscretionary concealed weapons laws : a case study of statistics, standards of proof, and public policy / Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III (1999) -- Uses and abuses of empirical data in the death penalty debate / John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers (2005) -- The economic case against drug prohibition / Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel (1995) -- The market for illegal goods : the case of drugs / Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Michael Grossman (2006) -- Measuring interjudge sentencing disparity : before and after the Federal Sentencing Guidelines / James M. Anderson, Jeffrey R. Kling and Kate Stith (1999) -- The impact of legalized abortion on crime / John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt (2001).