crime." "The Economics of crime addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of mandatory arrest laws, education in … crime rates, and employment. This book documents the serious short-and long-term consequences of childhood disadvantage and …"Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, and in several countries they have steadily risen …

expected price of committing crime. This implicit price can be substantially raised by making prison sentences longer, but only …

on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate to lower-poverty areas reduces arrests among female youth for … violent and property crimes, relative to a control group. For males the offer to relocate reduces arrests for violent crime …, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …

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 … Survey of Youth and arrest data from the Uniform Crime Reports. The effects of education, training, and wage subsidies, as …

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 …

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to … deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to apply it to the case where guns are used for crime commission by … offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and …

therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk … pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine … limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of …