Yungneocon comes back for an episode on the extremely popular and extremely bad economics book, Freakonomics.

Further reading, courtesy of yungneocon:

Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature

A Simple Test of Abortion and Crime

Abortion and Crime in Canada: A Test of the BMDL Hypothesis

Looking Through Broken Windows: The Impact of Neighborhood Disorder on Aggression and Fear of Crime is an Artifact of Research Design

The Illusion of Free Markets

Punishment and Inequality in America

The Growth of Incarceration in the United States

The Political Movement that Dared not Speak its own Name: The Neoliberal Thought Collective Under Erasure