Critical Notes on the Cost of Crime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14829596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E R Hawkins, Willard Waller |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 679 |
| Publication date | 1936-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-2731 • E-ISSN: 2160-0015 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1135630 |
| OpenAlex | W1829523754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
A considerable literature on the of is already extant. Much of this literature is wholly fallacious. Most of it is misleading in its general implications. Only a very small part of it is written with any conception of the methodological difficulties inherent in the problem. It is strange that so many pages of printed matter should have been produced with such a small expenditure of reflective thought. It is the purpose of the present paper to test the truth of some of the premises of this literature by economic analysis and to point out a new direction of investigation. Estimates of the annual cost of crime in the United States have ranged from a few hundred millions to nice round sums like thirteen billions or eighteen billions of dollars. The conclusion seems justified that no very well defined procedure has yet been developed for making such estimates. As Dorr and Simpson say
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1951 - 2008 (58) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |