WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Squeegee Man
2 Feb 2018
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Increase police numbers: more police = less crime: rapid response: the faster the response to incidents, the less crime, broken windows: signs of neighborhood disorder erode social order & invite criminal activity (ex. New york was the first to implement mandatory minimum sentences) (3 strikes, if its your third offence, you get the sentence for whatever the third crime was + an additional 20 years) What drives incarceration rates: crime rate, number of prison sentences per number of crimes committed (ex. Likelihood that an arrested offender will be sent to prison: length of prison sentence (number of years) Opportunity costs: when you do one thing with money, you cant do anything else with it. If 000 is being spent on a prisoner, that cant go to schools, welfare, healthcare, etc.
