Law and Economics Approach to Criminal Gangs
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AcknowledgmentsPreface1Introduction: The Race to Incarcerate12The Incarceration "Experiment"153The Rise of the "Tough on Crime" Movement424Crime as Politics565The Prison-crime Connection816The Limits of the Criminal Justice System on Crime Control1007African Americans and the Criminal Justice System1188The War on Drugs and the African American Community1429What's Class Got to Do with It?16210"Give the Public What It Wants": Media Images and Crime Policy17111Unintended Consequences17812A New Direction for a New Century189Index195
\ BooknewsExamines the state of the law regarding group-based criminal activities in general and criminal street gang activities in particular, and evaluates the current approach from an economic perspective. Reviews economic approaches taken towards modeling joint production and suggests ways in which these approaches can be applied to better understand the structure and behavior of criminal street gangs. Provides a framework for examining the economic organization of American gangs involved in the illegal narcotics market. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)\ \
