Cost Benefit Analysis and Crime Control

by Kevin Marsh, Terence Dunworth, John K. Roman

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877667667
• ISBN13: 9780877667667
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"