This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban … districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find that local area crime has a significantly negative impact on life …

The economic literature on crime and punishment focuses on the trade-off between probability and severity of punishment …

In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium model of crime and show that law enforcement has different roles …

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting …. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well … global terrorism and crime, and show that worries about terrorism are driven by similar determinants as those about crime …

This paper extends the optimal law enforcement literature to organized crime. We model the criminal organization as a … organized crime. …