Mark Kleiman & Paul Romer: How to Have Less Crime & Less Punishment

"UCLA Professor of Public Policy Mark Kleiman and NYU University Professor Paul Romer discuss crime and punishment in the United States.

The United States has about four times the homicide rate, and about six times the incarceration rate, of Canada or Western Europe. Both problems are concentrated in cities, and among the socially and economically disadvantaged. Crime is down dramatically over the past two decades, but the prison headcount remains at near-record levels. What is to be done?"