Cost Benefit Analysis and Crime Control (Urban Institute Press) - Softcover

Roman, John; Dunworth, Terry; Marsh, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877667667 ISBN 13: 9780877667667

Publisher: Urban Institute Press,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today's climate, need demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax dollars invested. Cost-benefit analysis, the economist's tool for determining the price of outcomes, yields a single metric that allows different interventions to be compared directly. Yet CBA is difficult, even controversial, to apply to crime control, as it involves placing monetary value on intangibles such as pain, suffering, well-being, and human life. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control guides researchers through cost collection, design of bias-free studies, measurement of effects, approaches to estimating program benefits, and methods for combining the elements into a unified analysis

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Edition details

• Publisher: Urban Institute Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877667667
• ISBN 13: 9780877667667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250