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Title

Controlling crime in New Zealand / Cathy Buchanan and Peter R. Hartley.

Author

Buchanan, C. L.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : New Zealand Business Roundtable, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Hartley, Peter R.
• New Zealand Business Roundtable.

Description

viii, 80 p.; 30 cm.

Summary

"The economic model of crime implies that people will be deterred from committing crimes if the expected costs exceed the expected benefits"--P. [vii].

Alternative Title

Crime in New Zealand

Subject

• Crime > Economic aspects > New Zealand
• Crime prevention > New Zealand
• Criminal behavior > Economic aspects > New Zealand
• Criminal justice, Administration of > New Zealand
• Criminology > New Zealand

Note

• "May 1996."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [75]-80).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Crime in New Zealand (Growth in crime relative to the population in New Zealand ; Calculating the costs of crime ; Explaining crime ; Summary of the economic model of criminal behaviour ; Unique sources of concern in New Zealand ; Summary of major policy implications of the economic approach) -- Economic model of criminal behaviour (Origins of the study of crime ; Criminal behaviour as a conscious choice ; The 'supply' of criminal activity ; Benefits of criminal activity as seen by the potential criminal ; Supply & demand ; Some implications of the economic approach) -- Statistical tests of the economic model of crime (Regression analyses using aggregate time series data ; Using individual data rather than, or in addition to, aggregate crime statistics ; Brief survey of New Zealand statistics) -- Alternative theories of crime (Criminological determinism ; Psychologicalcauses of crime ; Family life & criminality ; Sociological accounts ;
• Education ; Sociological responses to the economic theory of crime) -- Policy implications of the economic theory of crime (Police ; Prisons ; Juvenile crime ; White collar crime).

ISBN

1877148059 (pbk.) :

OCLC

38615604

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Harvard Library