For a relatively compact article, The Economist’s “When Economists Turn to Crime” covers a weighty range of its central topic’s aspects. The main idea suggests that economic analysis could provide valuable insights on and reforms to the American criminal-justice system. From this unifying point, a series of other ideas emerge, foremost among them the current state of the American criminal justice system. If, as the article words it, the system needs “saving," then it must be broken as it is. This is shown through statistics stating that the United States has the highest number of prisoners among countries in the developed world and in the idea that sentencing is harsher in the US, as well as that the existing system with its large rate of recidivism
