D. Mark Anderson
Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics
Montana State University
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Course Syllabus
Lecture 1: Economic Rationale for
Criminal Law
Lecture 2: Benefit/Cost Analysis of
the Enforcement Decision
Lecture 3: Measuring Amount and
Cost of Crime
Lecture 4: Victimless Crime
Lecture 5: Crime with Victims
Lecture 6: Risk Preferences and
Supply of Offenses
Lecture 7: State Preference Model
Lecture 8: Neighborhood Crime
Lecture 9: Game Theory
Lecture 10: Guns and Crime
Lecture 11
a
: A
lcohol
and Crime
Lecture 11b: Wet Laws and Crime
Term Paper Guidelines
Economics Journal List
Example for In-Text Citations
ECNS 316
Additional readings for Lectures 1 & 2
Ehrlich (1996)
- required
Becker (1968)
- optional
Additional readings for Lecture 3
McCollister et al. (2010)
- required
Additional readings for Lecture 4
Anderson et al. (2013)
- required
Cunningham and Shah (2018)
- required
Additional readings for Lecture 6
Mungan and Klick (2014)
- optional
Additional readings for Lecture 7
Alm and Torgler (2006)
- optional
Braguinsky et al. (2014)
- required
Guns and Crime 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
Edwards et al (forthcoming)
- optional
Alcohol and Crime Readings
Anderson et al. (2018)
- required
Carpenter and Dobkin (2015)
- required
Marijuana Readings
Anderson and Rees (2021)
Quiz 1 answer key
Quiz 2 answer key
Quiz 3 answer key
Quiz 4 answer key
Quiz 5 answer key
Quiz 6 answer key
Midterm answer key
Short Writing Assignment