We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables based on … other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal o ffenses, the eff ect on the overall …

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 analyses the interplay between social structure and information exchange in two competing activities, crime … individuals outside the dyad partnership, referred to as weak ties. Individuals learn about crime opportunities either through … and/or crime is profitable, unemployment benefits have to be low enough to prevent workers for staying too long in the …

We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new … neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …