Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual Public Lecture 2017:
Professor Stephen Machin - 'Why Commit Crime? Economic Incentives for Criminal Behaviour'
6 December 2017
The 2017 Annual Public Lecture took place at the Royal Institution, London on 22 November 2017. In this lecture Professor Stephen Machin discusses the importance of economic incentives as a determinant of crime, what economists can contribute to our understanding of why people commit crime and what can be done to discourage, detect and apprehend criminals.
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