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education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a … secondary education. Methods: We follow four cohorts of Danish students (N=27,525) when they complete 9th or 10th grade and …
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convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on … education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. …Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through …
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I review recent developments in the economic analysis of crime, focusing in particular on organized crime and … due to endogenous reporting of crime and the fact that randomized controlled trials are rarely an option when studying … crime. I then discuss recent advancements made possible by the combination of detailed micro-data and quasi …
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In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse … this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … burglary incidents. We first consider a panel of consumer goods covering the majority of market goods stolen in the crime …
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offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the … offending behavior, whereas individual victimization risks are significantly linked to education, employment and size of peer …
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who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …
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