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Wilson deals with the problem like a political scientist: through a cost-benefit analysis of the criminal's "decision to become involved in crime." He presumes that the criminal is rational enough to weigh the potential costs of an illegal act and will base his actions on the risk he is willing to take. Not surprisingly, his belief in the rational criminal leads Wilson to the idea of raising the cost relative to the benefit. When the criminal sees that an illegal act is too risky, Wilson reasons, he will restrain from the illicit activity...
...amoral than those of the wealthiest suburbs with high degrees of "community." Street hoods are merely society's biggest losers, with neither the polish nor position to be respectable white collar criminals. They are intellectually, psychologically and economically vulnerable and frustrated. A housebreaker does not rationally compute the cost-benefit analysis of a robbery in the same terms as his more successful middle class counterpart. Even Wilson admits that "burglaries are committed by unskilled persons who often act opportunistically rather than by careful plan...
Whether Pavlovich will come out in the black "after a cost-benefit study of his life," as one student put it, remains to be seen. Many students at Harvard refuse to view Pavlovich as a common felon. One friends says he feels Spiro proved dramatically that "it was unnecessary to go the prep school, Ivy route in order to succeed at Harvard." Meanwhile, a few business students sport "Free Monica Cabot" T-shirts and have written a case study on her. Up at the Law School, the inevitable Spiro jokes are incorporated in the school's annual show...
...Investigate the cost-benefit gains that would accrue to the Food Services Dept...
...long as we have segregated schools, I see no alternative to busing. Integration is a painful job. It is social therapy, and like personal therapy it is not easy." Kenneth Tollett, director of Washington's Institute for the Study of Education Policy, calls for busing to undergo "almost a cost-benefit analysis" to determine its worth. He notes further: "The difference is not blacks v. whites but underclass v. middle class...