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  • Economic Analysis and Efficiency in Policing, Criminal Justice and Crime Reduction

    What Works?

    by Matthew Manning, Shane D. Johnson, Gabriel T.W. Wong, Margarita Vorsina ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This monograph explains what economic analysis is, why it is important, and forms it can take in policing and criminal justice. Costs are important in all forms of economic analysis but their collection tends to be partial and inadequate in capturing key information. A practical guide to the collection is therefore also provided. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Place Matters

    Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

    by David Weisburd, John E. Eck, Anthony A. Braga, Cody W. Telep, Breanne Cave, Kate Bowers, Gerben Bruinsma, Charlotte Gill, Julie Hibdon, Joshua C. Hinkle, Shane D. Johnson, Brian Lawton, Cynthia Lum, George Rengert, Travis Taniguchi, Sue-Ming Yang, Elizabeth R. Groff, Jerry H. Ratcliffe ...
    Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

    Edited by Gerben J.N. Bruinsma, Shane D. Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

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  • Formula Funding of Public Services

    by Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion of public service expenditure is distributed using formulae, in services such as health care, local government, social security and higher education. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice underlying the use of ... Read more

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  • Psychology of Fraud

    Integrating Criminological Theory into Counter Fraud Efforts

    by J. Michael Skiba ...
    Estimates reveal that insurance fraud costs $80 billion per yearand thats just in the United States of America. That translates into almost $1,000 annually per household.Weak preventative controls and paltry punishments make insurance fraud particularly attractive to criminals, who often use it as their preferred vehicle for funding organized crime and terrorist activities.J. Michael Skiba ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Valuation of forest ecosystem services. A practical guide

    by Pere RIERA, Giovanni SIGNORELLO, Mara THIENE, Stale NAVRUD, Maria De Salvo, Pamela KAVAL, Livia MADUREIRA, Pierre-Alexandre MAHIEU, Jurgen MEYERHOFF, Robert MAVSAR, Bénédicte RULLEAU ...
    This book provides good practice protocols for the economic valuation of non-market forest ecosystem goods and services. it covers the main valuation methods: Hedonic Pricing, Travel Cost, Contingent Valuation, Choice Modeling, and Benefit Transfer. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Measuring Outcome In The Public Sector

    Edited by Peter Smith ...
    Outcome in the management of public services refers to the impact of a particular public sector activity. This book provides a critical assessment of the way outcome is measured, exploring the need to balance objective and subjective forms of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Credit crunch health care

    How economics can save our publicly funded health services

    by Cam Donaldson ...
    The credit crunch is a threat to publicly funded health care. World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends our systems on the same basis as those who seek to erode public services, namely, that of economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by J.P. Newhouse, A J. Culyer ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbooks in Economics
    The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

  • Measuring Efficiency in Health Care

    Analytic Techniques and Health Policy

    by Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith, Andrew Street ...
    With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple objectives of health care organizations and the many gaps in information systems. In response to this ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Environmental Impact Assessment

    A Comparative Review

    by Chris Wood ...
    Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has become a vital management tool worldwide. EIA is a means of evaluating the likely consequences of a proposed major action which will significantly affect the environment, before that action is taken.This new edition of Wood's key text provides an authoritative, international review of environmental impact assessment, comparing systems used in the UK, USA, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Modelling the City

    Performance, Policy and Planning

    Edited by C. S. Bertuglia, G. P. Clarke, A. G. Wilson ...
    Modelling the City examines the changing role of urban models in respect to both the need to readdress measures of urban well-being and the perceived need to bring model outputs more in tune with key planning problems. The authors argue that whilst there has been substantial progress with a wide range of theoretical problems in urban modelling, modellers have not paid enough attention to the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD