Economics Of Crime
ECON-305-0W1
SUNY Canton
- Semester
- Spring 2025
- Instructor
- Umesh Kumar
- Start Date
- 01-20-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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This course examines the behavior of criminals and use economic concepts to analyze crimes of violence, crimes against property, and the markets for illegal goods and services. Topics to be covered include costs of crime to society and its various stakeholders, prostitution and drug crimes, issue of decriminalization and legalization, allocation of resources to and within the criminal justice system, crime prevention strategies, and efficiency and effectiveness of the use of punishment as a form of crime deterrence. In addition, it uses an economic understanding of crime and crime behavior to develop public policy options.
Course Area: Economics
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 01-20-2025 - 05-09-2025
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