Criminal
Oct. 16, 2010
Time for a Cost-Benefit Analysis On Crime
We need more from our politicians than just posturing about how tough they are on crime. By W. David Ball of Santa Clara University.
Thousands of people die on the road each year. We pass laws and regulate cars in order to decrease those risks by requiring that all drivers are licensed, imposing speed limits, and mandating various types of safety requirements for cars. Any of these measures by themselves, though, is incomplete: we can only eliminate traffic deaths by eliminating cars. But we would never do that because we weigh the costs and benefits of automotive tran...
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