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Guide to Important Literature in Crime and Economics Bushway and Reuter have recently finished a review
paper entitled
"Economists' Contribution to the Study of Crime and the
Criminal Justice System". The paper takes a critical look at the
potential contribution of economics and economists to the study of crime
and the criminal justice system. The paper is written for
non-economists and is intended to expand the debate about the
contribution of economists and economics to criminology beyond the long
running (and largely unproductive) argument over the relative merits of
deterrence. It will be appearing in the 2008 volume of Crime and
Justice: An Annual Review of Research.
Bureau of Justice Statistics In an interdisciplinary enterprise, it can sometimes be difficult to find the relevant literature in other disciplines. We offer the following resources for key reading in crime and economics:
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