is little support, therefore, for the `broken windows' theory of Wilson and Kelling (1982). Yet, perceptions do respond … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …

is to deter crime. Two types of prison work programs are studied--voluntary ones and mandatory ones. A voluntary work …

offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and …The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the … literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to …

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 …

. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …

a model of the adjustment of sentences assuming that the state's objective is the optimal deterrence of crime. In the …

Theories of crime in economics focus on the roles of deterrence and incapacitation in reducing criminal activity. In … play a role in crime reduction. This paper extends the Becker-Ehrlich model to a standard labor supply model that includes … an individual chooses to engage in crime. Second, we show that whether the production of criminal activity is a …