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News in Crime and Economics The Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy is proud to announce the release of a Special Issue of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology on the topic of incapacitation edited by Shawn Bushway and Peter Reuter. The issue was released in December 2007. The topic was featured in the 2006 Economics and Crime Workshop which lead directly to this special issue. There are two commissioned review papers, one by criminologists Alex Piquero and Alfred Blumstein and the other by economists Thomas Miles and Jens Ludwig. These papers present good reviews of the literature as well as different perspectives on the future of incapacitation research. There are also three empirical papers by Avi Bhati; Gary Sweeten and Robert Apel; and Paul Nieuwbeerta and Arjan Blokland that generate new estimates of the impact of incapacitation using individual level data. Finally, there is a research note by Shawn Bushway and Jeffrey Smith which highlights the problem of suppression by incarceration and treatment by the criminal justice system when trying to predict risk. http://www.springerlink.comBushway 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. http://www.castineresearch.org |
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The Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy is a joint program of the Departments of Criminology and of Economics and the School of Public Policy and supported by the Maryland Population Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. |