Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs.

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Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, edited by Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary, is available this fall. he price of this NBER Conference Report is $110.00.

Expenditures on criminal justice have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing the costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls becoming common, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished with fewer resources, or by investing those resources in areas other than the criminal justice system, has become all the more relevant. Controlling Crime considers alternative ways to reduce crime without sacrificing public safety. The topics considered in this volume include: criminal justice system reform; social policy; and...