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- Title
A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF IMMIGRATION CRIMES.
- Authors
JOHNSON, KIT
- Abstract
Immigration crimes are the most prosecuted federal crimes in America. This Article examines the benefits of the federal prosecution of immigration crimes (training, deterrence, and signaling/expression) and balances those benefits against the costs of such prosecutions (courthouse costs, alternative prosecution, and incarceration). I conclude that deportation immediately following a conviction for an immigration crime appears to capture the key benefit of this system (signaling/expression) while alleviating its greatest expense (incarceration).
- Subjects
IMMIGRATION law; CRIMINAL law; COST effectiveness; FEDERAL prosecutors; PUNISHMENT in crime deterrence
- Publication
Denver University Law Review, 2015, Vol 92, Issue 4, p863
- ISSN
0883-9409
- Publication type
Article