Immigration Article of the Day: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Federal Prosecution of Immigration Crimes by Kit Johnson
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Federal Prosecution of Immigration Crimes by Kit Johnson, University of Oklahoma – College of Law 2014 Denver University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 4, 2014
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 (court-house 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).
KJ
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