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Outline of material for midterm
Midterm
Alcohol and Crime HW
Outline of material for final
Lecture 1: Economic Rationale for Criminal Law
Lecture 2: Benefit/Cost Analysis of the Enforcement Decision
Lecture 1 & 2 readings
Ehrlich (1996) - required
Becker (1968) - optional
Lecture 3: Measuring Amount and Cost of Crime
Lecture 3 reading
McCollister et al. (2010) - required
Lecture 4: Victimless Crime
Lecture 4 readings
Anderson et al. (2013) - required
Cunningham and Shah (2018) - required
Lecture 5: Crime with Victims
Lecture 6: Risk Preferences and Supply of Offenses
Lecture 6 reading
Mungan and Klick (2014) - optional
Lecture 7: State Preference Model
Lecture 7 readings
Braguinsky et al. (2014) - required
Alm and Torgler (2006) - optional
Lecture 8: Neighborhood Crime
Lecture 9: Game Theory and Crime
Lecture 10: Guns and Crime
Lecture 10 readings
Lott and Mustard (1997) - required
Duggan (2001) - required
Anderson and Sabia (2018) - required
Lang (2013) - required
McClellan and Tekin (2017) - required
Carr and Doleac (2018) - required
Cheng and Hoekstra (2017) - optional
Lecture 11a: Alcohol and Crime
Lecture 11b: Wet Laws and Crime
Lecture 11 readings
Carpenter and Dobkin (2015) - required
Anderson et al. (2018) - required
Lecture 12: Legalization of Marijuana
Lecture 12 readings
Anderson and Rees (2021) - required
Lecture 13a: The Meth Project and Teen Meth Use
Lecture 13b: Education and Substance Use
Lecture 13 readings
Anderson (2010) - required
