A law and economics approach to criminal gangs
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A law and economics approach to criminal gangs
Ashgate, c1999
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Description
Designed to introduce a new way of looking at the organization of criminal street gangs, this book has been written with the objective of helping law enforcers and policy makers to design more effective policies and criminal laws in the effort to curb drug gang activities. The book suggests ways in which economic modelling can be sued to understand criminal street gangs as profitable organizations and how this can shed light on approaches to collective action. The author integrates formal economic modelling with criminal law and contemporary information about street gang organization in some of the major American cities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A law and economics approach to group-based criminal laws and criminal street gangs: the American criminal law approach to group-based crimes
- an economic model of a criminal street gang
- applications to common group-based criminal statutes. Part 2 Street gangs as organizations: survey of economic approaches to collective action - application to street gangs
- criminal street gangs as agreement enforcing institutions. Part 3 The economic organization of drug selling gangs: contemporary theories of gang organization
- economic model of gang organization
- applications of results to observed variations in gang organization.
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