Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law, Hardcover by Harel, Alon ...

Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law, Hardcover by Harel, Alon (EDT); Hylton, Keith N. (EDT), ISBN 1848443749, ISBN-13 9781848443747, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKThis is a selective survey of scholarship on the economic analysis of criminal law, covering different traditions and approaches, including theoretical economic models, behavioral findings, and empirical research. Editors Harel (law, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) and Hylton (law, Boston U., US) present ten chapters discussing the main traditions of law and economics approaches to criminal law, the boundaries between criminal law and other fields of law (such as tort law), the size of optimal sanctions taking into account differential vulnerabilities of victims, optimal scope and optimal sanction in criminal law in the context of a certain fixed distribution of wealth, a hybrid model of optimal length of freedom that takes into account both deterrence and incapacitation of criminals, the economics of corporate liability, a challenge to the premise that fraudulent accounting is rational behavior, the incentives that influence prosecutors' behavior, and law and economics explanations for the dramatic reduction of crime rates in the 1990s. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()