Inthis paper, the relationship between unemployment and property crime is investigated in the context of dynamic system … robbery, which is the most serious property crime. Unemployment by race (white, black, and Hispanic) also supports the above … finding. In general, the linkage between unemployment rate and property crime seems to become stronger as the degree of …

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work … street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline less (or increase) with age and education. Predictions for age-crime … and education-crime relationships receive broad empirical support in self-report data from the National Longitudinal …

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of … hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert … more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate crime. These differences also have previously unrecognized effects on …