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This article investigates the relationships among property crime, police resources, and the allocation of police resources in a model using data from Florida jurisdictions. Crime spillovers among local jurisdictions are also investigated in this context. Significant spillovers are revealed, and the evidence suggests that allocating scarce police resources to drug enforcement reduces the deterrence of property crime. The results also suggest that police may capture rents by increasing drug enforcement. Increasing the relative number of drug arrests raises the property crime rate, and both of these variables are positively correlated with police resources.The economics of crime literature has explored many theoretical and empirical issues related to how criminals respond to changes in legal earnings and employment opportunities and the deterrence effects of arrest, conviction, and punishment. Efforts to estimate deterrence effects are limited to violent crimes against persons and property offenses-the crimes that are routinely reported to police. Simultaneous equation models support the postulates of the economics of crime for murder (

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Based on the 1992 Fellow's Address of the Southern Regional Science Association. this article takes a nostalgic tour through Georgia's rural countryside, showing the effects of stagnation and decline. It then reviews the conditions for growth and development in the tradition of Schumpeter and Ricardo, their applicability to the rural South, and their implications for regional scientists.

Using recent evidence from the state of Florida, the outcomes of the "War on Drugs" are analyzed by critically evaluating the assumptions that underlie the policy. It would appear that many of the assumptions may not be valid, thereby in part explaining the apparent failure of the drug law enforcement strategy to attain the stated objectives. Alternative strategies are briefly considered. Copyright 1992 by The Policy Studies Organization.