"A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars … and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable … progress made in recent years in the economic analysis of individual and organised crime. Such progress is related to the so …

In this volume, the rational choice model is extended to a framework of norm-guided theories of crime are incorporated …. Based on this framework, a broad range of regression analyses of crime in various parts of the world is reviewed. Many … general, methodological problems of empirical studies of crime are discussed, such as identification of models, model …