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Cost Benefit Analysis and Crime Control
Roman, John; Marsh, Kevin; Dunworth, Terry
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Paperback. Series: Urban Institute Press. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today's climate, need demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax dollars invested. Cost-benefit analysis, the economist's tool for determining the price of outcomes, yields a single metric that allows different interventions to be compared directly. Yet CBA is difficult, even controversial, to apply to crime control, as it involves placing monetary value on intangibles such as pain, suffering, well-being, and human life. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control guides researchers through cost collection, design of bias-free studies, measurement of effects, approaches to estimating program benefits, and methods for combining the elements into a ... Read more
Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today's climate, need demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax dollars invested. Cost-benefit analysis, the economist's tool for determining the price of outcomes, yields a single metric that allows different interventions to be compared directly. Yet CBA is difficult, even controversial, to apply to crime control, as it involves placing monetary value on intangibles such as pain, suffering, well-being, and human life. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control guides researchers through cost collection, design of bias-free studies, measurement of effects, approaches to estimating program benefits, and methods for combining the elements into a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Urban Institute Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Urban Institute Press
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780877667667
SKU
V9780877667667
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