crime. What are the two things? First, there is either a threat or an offer. In the former case, it is, typically, to … Clinton to the beggar to the fund raiser for the local charity can attest. Yet when combined, the result is called blackmail … and it is widely seen as a crime. But that is just the puzzle. The mystery is that over a dozen attempts to account for …

is considered a crime. First, one may gossip, and, provided that what is said is true, there is nothing illegal about it … requests money in exchange for silence -- money in exchange for giving up the right of free speech -- it is a crime. The law … the law to threaten to gossip, unless paid off not to do so. In a word, blackmail is a victimless crime, and must be …

The authors provide the summary of the most important findings of the early models of economics of crime, namely the … activities. Probability and siže of punishment, attitudes towards risk, gains form crime and income are the main variables which …

) poorer public infrastructure; and, (v) higher crime rates and more industrial riots. The results are robust and the …

crime by raising the sanction or raising the cost of concealing the crime. Which policy is chosen should depend upon the … set one penalty for the crime, and possibly a generalized additional sanction for any concealment of the crime that can be …

We examine the relationship between casinos and crime using county-level data for the US between 1977 and 1996. Casinos … reduce crime occur before or shortly after a casino opens, while those that increase crime, including problem and … pathological gambling, occur over time. The results suggest that the effect on crime is low shortly after a casino opens, and grows …

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …