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Causation and the Financial Crisis

…is to incapacitate. We lock people up because the crime they have committed convinces us that they are likely to commit more crimes. In theory if we could determine who…

A look at costs of doing nothing

…growing up in poverty and their earnings, propensity to commit crime,and quality of health later in life. We also review estimates of the costs that crime and poor healthper person…

The Absence of Truth

…walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get whatever it may be. In fact, crime has plunged:…