Economists who bring the tools of economic analysis to bear on the study of crime and crime prevention contribute to current debates a normative framework and sophisticated quantitative methods for evaluating policy, the idea of criminal behavior as rational choice, and the connection of...

Supporters of international and domestic criminal trials for atrocity crimes argue that, among other things, trials will prevent genocide in the future by deterring would-be genocidaires by ending impunity and attaching responsibility for atrocity crimes to individuals rather than groups. The...