Crime Economics: An Original Institutional Approach

Presenting an original institutional approach, this book makes the case for an empirically-based crime economics that aims to guide the fight against crime within a logic of reasonable capitalism and the common good.

Clotilde Champeyrache, economist and criminologist, is an associate professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, attached to the Security - Defense - Intelligence Department. She lectures on topics related to criminology, criminal economy and crime control. Her research focuses on organized crime, with a particular interest in mafia-type organizations and criminal infiltration of the legal economy.