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Peter Reuter
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 284
Citations - 13966
Peter Reuter is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Legalization & Law enforcement. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 277 publications receiving 13356 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Reuter include University of Kent & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
Lawrence W. Sherman,Denise C. Gottfredson,Doris L. MacKenzie,John E. Eck,Peter Reuter,Shawn D. Bushway +5 more
TL;DR: In 1996, a Federal law required the U.S. Attorney General to provide Congress with an independent review of the Many crime prevention programs work. Others don’t.
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Drug war heresies: learning from other vices, times and places.
Robert J. MacCoun,Peter Reuter +1 more
TL;DR: This article provided the first multidisciplinary and nonpartisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and showed that the choice about how to regulate drugs involves complicated tradeoffs among goals and conflict among social groups.
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Disorganized crime: The economics of the visible hand
TL;DR: In this article, Reuter systematically refutes the notion that the Mafia, by using political connections and the threat of violence, controls the major illegal markets, and suggests that the cost of suppressing competition has ensured that these markets are populated with small enterprises, many of them marginal and ephemeral.