Harold Winter

By considering both the costs and benefits of potential policy solutions, the author stresses that real-world decision making is best served by an explicit recognition of as many trade-offs as possible. Meer

The Economics of Crime presents a review of economic scholarly research in the ever-growing field of crime and punishment. Without using graphs or mathematical equations, Winter combines theory and empirical evidence relating to public policy concerns over a wide range of controversial topics such as the death penalty, racial bias in the criminal justice system, gun control, the war on drugs, fines versus imprisonment, policing tactics, and shaming punishments. Meer