showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime … level. We then structurally estimate our model using data on criminal behaviors of adolescents in the United States … criminal activities, they can be key players because they have a crucial position in the network in terms of betweenness …

We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal … military service, and criminal records, we find that participation in the military service increases the likelihood of … developing a criminal record in adulthood. The effects are not only significant for the cohorts that performed military service …

, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply the model to crime and study the conditions under which agents would … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external … punishments increase temptation and demand for morality, so that external and internal sanctions are complements. The model helps …

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in …-release criminal record of inmates from new EU member countries with a control group of pardoned inmates from candidate EU member … show that obtaining legal status lowers the recidivism of economically motivated offenders, but only in areas that provide …

leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the … Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its “neighbouring” effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational …