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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.The Costs of Crime: Who Pays and How Much?
The Costs of Crime: Who Pays and How Much? is a revision of The Crime Bill: Who Pays and How Much? (Brantingham and Easton 1996) that expands and brings up to date the statistics presented in the original publication. The purpose of this primer is to describe (1) what kinds of crime Canadians are exposed to, (2) who is at risk from these crimes, (3) who commits what crimes, (4) what costs the victims face, and (5) what expenditures we make to prevent crime. To understand what changes we may want to make in our criminal justice system, it is important to see the overall patterns of crime and punishment, how they have evolved, and what they have cost.
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Paul Brantingham
Paul J. Brantingham, a lawyer and criminologist, is professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Educated at Columbia University inNew York, and Cambridge University in England, he was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary at Simon Fraser during the early 1980s and Director of the Simon Fraser Centre for Canadian Studies during 1992. Prior to joining Simon Fraser University in 1977, Professor Brantingham taught at Florida State University. From 1985 through 1987, he served in government as Director of Special Reviews at the Public Service Commission of Canada. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1969. Professor Brantingham has been involved in crime analysis and research into crime prevention for more than 20 years and currently serves as Co-Director of the Crime Prevention Analysis Laboratory (CPAL) at Simon Fraser. He is author or editor of more than 20 books and scientific monographs, and more than 100 articles and scientific papers. Recent work has included studies of auto theft for the British Columbia Association of Chiefs of Police and efforts to help introduce a legal aid system in China through the United Nations' International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy.… Read more -
Stephen T. Easton
Stephen T. Easton was a professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He received his A.B. from Oberlin College in1970 and an A.M. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Chicago. He published extensively; his publications included Rating Global Economic Freedom (with M.A. Walker, Fraser Institute 1992); Education in Canada: An Analysis of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Schooling (Fraser Institute 1988); Legal Aid Efficiency: Cost and Competitiveness (with P.J. Brantingham and P.L. Brantingham, Queen's University 1994). He was also co-author of the School Report Card Series.Professor Easton was an associate editor for Economic Inquiry from 1980 to 1984, on the board of editors for the Canadian Journal of Economics from 1984 to 1987, organizer for the Canadian Economics Association's Canada-France Roundtable in 1988 and representative for the Canadian Economics Association to the Social Science Federation of Canada Aid to Scholarly Publications from 1991 to 1994. He was a senior research fellow of The Fraser Institute.… Read more