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Accounting for crime
Author(s) -
Shaw Stephen
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00011
Subject(s) - legislation , legislature , subject (documents) , order (exchange) , law , law and economics , political science , accounting , economics , business , finance , computer science , library science
New law and order legislation has a patchy record so far as crime reduction is concerned. Can economic analyses help decide between competing policies? Taking the current Crime (Sentences) Bill as an example, the author argues that as a first step new legislative proposals should be subject to more intensive fiscal examination.