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Hardly a day goes by without newspaper reports of major violent crimes committed in all settings—from the largest metropolitan area to the smallest hamlet, from the poorest ghetto to the most affluent neighborhood.1 The cost of crime to society, including so-called white-collar crimes, is so staggering today that it can no longer be tolerated if we are to survive as a free and civilized society. Crime is both economically and psychologically taxing, and economists can come up with figures on the economic costs of crime that boggle the imagination.2 Today’s dilemma is to reduce crime and make it unprofitable without destroying our free society.
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de Seife, R.J.A. (1991). Victim Compensation. In: Sank, D., Caplan, D.I. (eds) To Be a Victim. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4_5
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