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Wealth Redistribution and the Social Costs of Crime and Law Enforcement

In: Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law

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  • Avraham D. Tabbach

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Jeremy Bentham and Gary Becker established the tradition of analyzing criminal law in utilitarian and economic terms. This seminal book continues that tradition with specially commissioned, original papers that span the philosophical foundations of the use of economics in criminal law, both traditional economic perspectives and behavioral and experimental approaches to the discipline.

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  • Avraham D. Tabbach, 2012. "Wealth Redistribution and the Social Costs of Crime and Law Enforcement," Chapters, in: Alon Harel & Keith N. Hylton (ed.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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