| NCJ Number: |
73019  |
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| Title: |
Crime and Crime Control - What Are the Social Costs? (From Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws, Part 15 - Hearings Before the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, First Session on S. 1722 and S. 1723, P 10864-10872, September 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, and October 5, 1979 - See NCJ-73017) |
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| Corporate Author: |
Washington State
Office of the Attorney General
Temple of Justice
United States of America
Hoover Institution
Ctr for Econometric Studies of the Justice System
Stanford University
United States of America |
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| Date Published: |
1979 |
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| Page Count: |
8 |
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| Sponsoring Agency: |
Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA 94305
National Institute of Justice/
Rockville, MD 20849
US Dept of Justice
US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
Washington, DC 20531
Washington State
Olympia, WA 98504 |
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| Grant Number: |
077-NI-99-0071 |
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| Publication Number: |
Report CERDCR-3-79 |
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| Sale Source: |
National Institute of Justice/
NCJRS paper reproduction
Box 6000, Dept F
Rockville, MD 20849
United States of America |
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| Document: |
PDF |
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| Type: |
Legislative/Regulatory Material |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United States of America |
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| Annotation: |
The costs of crime and crime control are examined in accordance with the methods and empirical results of recent economic research. |
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| Abstract: |
The paper introduces the basic analytical framework for cost analysis and briefly examines some of its implications for public policies within the criminal justice system. The costs of crime are indicated to include the cost to the criminal, including the time and resources needed to commit the offense and the value of alternatives sacrificed should punishment result from the crime; the cost to the victim; and the costs of crime control. The challenge to the criminal justice system within the economic framework developed is indicated to be the cost-efficient allocation of the resources of the criminal justice system to minimize the social costs of crime. Several important conceptual issues in the definition and measurement of crime costs are considered, and some recent empirical findings regarding the magnitude of various components of those costs are reported. Finally, an illustrative calculation of the costs and benefits of crime reduction is given followed by an estimate of the social costs imposed by an average index felony. Tabular, data footnotes, and 19 references are provided. |
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| Index Term(s): |
Allocution; Cost analysis; Crime control model; Crime costs; Federal Code; Hearings; Legislation; Testimony |
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To cite this abstract, use the following link:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=73019 |
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