Projects
PERU is undertaking a feasibility study to assess whether a Cost Benefit Analysis is technically possible and whether given likely resource implications associated with such a study a full study would be justifiable.
Publications
Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime and criminology. The economics of crime is an area of growing activity and concern, increasingly influential both to the…
Publications
Recent years have seen high levels of public spending on criminal justice but to relatively little effect. Prison numbers have risen sharply and public confidence in the criminal justice system remains relatively low. Although crime has fallen there is…