Constitutional Law

Economists On Nation's Crime Fighting Agenda

Economists Phil Cook, Jens Ludwig and Justin McCray offer The New York Times’ Freakonomics Blog an ideologically divergent list of suggestions for “fighting crime.” The economists offer ideas on bolstering deterrence, helping low-income kids avoid criminal behavior and a couple ideas on regulating drugs, such as decriminalizing “possession of small quantities of marijuana.” The economists say “Frito sales might go up, but crime almost surely won’t.”

Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).