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 …

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 …

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 …

affecting the probability they return to prison. Using administrative prison release records from nearly six million offenders … observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes … are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability …

specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our results reveal that, consistent with a theory in which height can be a source of …This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates … labor market disadvantage, criminals in early America were shorter than the average American, and individual crime hazards …

of engaging in crime and therefore, a priori drawing the conclusion that criminal activity cannot be altered by …