A FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE HARMS OF CRIMES

被引：62

作者：

Greenfield, Victoria A. ^{[2
]}

Paoli, Letizia ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Fac Law, Leuven Inst Criminol, LINC, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium

[2] RAND Corp, Arlington, VA 22202 USA

来源：

BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY | 2013年 / 53卷 / 05期

关键词：

crime; harm; crime-control policy; cost of crime; perceived seriousness of crime; ORGANIZED-CRIME; DRUG POLICY; REDUCTION;

D O I：

10.1093/bjc/azt018

中图分类号：

DF [法律]; D9 [法律];

学科分类号：

0301 ;

摘要：

Despite the centrality of harm to crime and criminalization and increasing interest in harm as a basis for crime-control policy, the criminological community has yet done little to systematically reflect on criminal harms or their identification, evaluation and comparison. This paper presents a newly developed framework with which to systematize the empirical assessment of such harms and address at least some of the attendant conceptual and technical challenges. It also suggests several roles for the framework in policy making. Our conclusions are twofold: it is possible to reliably evaluate the harms of criminal activities, as our examples suggest, but it is not possible-for both conceptual and technical reasons-to develop an encompassing estimate of the total harms of these activities.

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页码：864 / 885

页数：22