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 …

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 …

crime. What are the two things? First, there is either a threat or an offer. In the former case, it is, typically, to … 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 … not to do so. In a word, blackmail is a victimless crime, and must be legalized, if justice is to be attained. The authors …

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 …

We present evidence on the effect of greater numbers of police personnel on crime and nuisance reduction in the … regions, allowing us to use this policy intervention to identify the effect of police on crime and nuisance. We control for … regional economic, social and demographic factors and for national trends that might obscure the effect of police on crime. We …

the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality … households. Second, the rise in inequality since the 1970s is overstated by two-thirds: within house-hold inequality declined … on wages and hours worked can simultaneously explain virtually all of the decline in within household inequality and a …