The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs- crime channel within …

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 …

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data …-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, we find a … strong evidence for females that criminal victimization hurts, but hurts less if the crime rate on our reference group is …

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 …

to less crime, and may lead to more crime. If a criminal has the opportunity to commit multiple criminal acts and has … sanctions, may actually lead the criminal to commit more crime. The reason is that as the sanction is increased, the criminal … of committing criminal acts. But the variable cost of crime will enter into the criminal's decision process. If raising …

without civilian jobs to go to, many countries got an oversupply of qualified violent people for crime, warfare and private …