TY - BOOK AU - Di Tella,Rafael AU - Edwards,Sebastian AU - Schargrodsky,Ernesto ED - National Bureau of Economic Research ED - Universidad Torcuato di Tella. TI - The economics of crime lessons for and from Latin America T2 - A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report SN - 226153746 U1 - R 364.98 20 PY - 2010/// CY - Chicago (Illinois, estados Unidos) PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Crimen KW - Aspectos económicos KW - América Latina KW - Criminología KW - Economía KW - Prevención del delito KW - Sociología N1 - Overview: Latin America exceptionalism? --; Understanding high crime rates in Latin America: the role of social and policy factors; Rodrigo R. Soares and Joana Naritomi ; comentarios: Alejandro Gaviria --; The economics of crime meets Latin America. Capital crimes: kidnappings and corporate investment in Colombia; Rony Pshisva and Gustavo A. Suarez ; comentarios: Juan Pantano --; The cost of avoiding crime: the case of Bogotá; Alejandro Gaviria ... [et al.] ; comentario: Alfredo Canavese --; Do conflicts create poverty traps? asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia; Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya ; comentarios: Martín González Rozada --; Crime distribution and victim behavior during a crime wave; Rafael Di Tella, Sebastián Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky ; comment: Lucas Ronconi --; Assessing Sáo Paulo*s large drop in homicides: the role of demography and policy interventions; Joáo M P de Mello and Alexandre Schneider ; comentario: Lucas Llach --; The quality of life in prisons: do educational programs reduce in-prison conflicts?; María Laura Alzúa, Catherine Rodriguez, and Edgar Villa ; comentarios: Andrés Borenstein; -- International evidence. What do economists know about crime?; Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Garrett Summers ; comment: Philip J. Cook --; Peaceable kingdoms and war zones: preemption, ballistics, and murder in Newark; Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi ; comment: Guillermo Cruces --; Crime displacement and police interventions: evidence from London's "operation theseus"; Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, and Robert Witt ; comment: Catherine Rodriguez --; The impact of incentives on human behavior: can we make it disappear? the case of the death penalty; Naci Mocan and Kaj Gittings ; comentarios: Lucía Quesada --; Does arrest deter violence? comparing experimental and nonexperimental evidence on mandatory arrest laws; Radha Iyengar ; comment: Rafael Di Tella ER -