NCJ Number
54578
Date Published
1978
Length
498 pages
Annotation
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LISTS AND SEPARATE ANNOTATED CITATIONS ARE PROVIDED FOR LITERATURE ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME AND PLANNING CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY. BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND GOVERNMENT REPORTS ARE CITED IN BOTH FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
Abstract
BOTH THE LISTS AND ANNOTATIONS ARE SUBDIVIDED BY TOPIC (THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO CRIME, THE COST OF SPECIFIC CRIMES, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, PLANNING CRIMINAL JUSTICE, POLICE, COURT, CORRECTIONS, AND VICTIM COMPENSATION POLICY) AND ARE THEN ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR AND FORMAT (BOOKS, ARTICLES, REPORTS). PUBLISHED MOSTLY BETWEEN THE LATE 1950'S AND MID-1970'S, THE MATERIALS INCLUDE WORKS DEALING WITH THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE COST OF CRIME, STUDIES OF THE ECONOMIC PROCESS IN RELATION TO CERTAIN CRIMINAL MANIFESTATIONS (E.G., ORGANIZED CRIME AND DRUG TRAFFICKING), WORKS USING THE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE TO DESCRIBE AND EVALUATE THE FUNCTIONING OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, REPORTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL AND PERSONNEL AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF THESE RESOURCES BY THE POLICE, STUDIES ESTIMATING THE COST OF COURTS AND THE IMPACT OF DELAYS, DISCUSSIONS ON PLANNING AND EVALUATION WITHIN THE CORRECTIONS ENVIRONMENT, REFLECTIONS ON THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING A VICTIM COMPENSATION SCHEME, AND STUDIES ON THE UTILITY OF SYSTEMS AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES OF DECISIONMAKING IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. A LIST OF 11 OTHER BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY IS ALSO PROVIDED, ALONG WITH AN AUTHOR INDEX AND A GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES PUBLISHING RELATED MATERIALS. (KBL)