inherently incomplete. Under incomplete law, law enforcement by courts may suffer from deterrence failure, defined as the … introduced. The major functional difference between courts and regulators is that courts enforce law reactively, that is only …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …

This paper estimates the impact of recorded domestic property crime on property prices in the London area. Crimes in … property. One explanation we offer here is that vandalism, graffiti and other forms of criminal damage motivate fear of crime …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …

In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other work in … way that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on a quasiexperimental setting … induced by the introduction of the Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) in the UK in October 1996. We look at crime rates in areas more …

The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy’s local labor … markets and analyzes the short-term response of crime to the severe slump of 2007-2009. It shows that the downturn led to a …-worker contractual arrangements) had a role in slowing down the effect of the economy on crime; ii) the link between the downturn and …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …