to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

Abstract This paper extends the Becker (1968)-Ehrlich (1973) model of crime to allow for government transfers. Using … in turn allows an integration of a crime model with a standard public finance model. Using King et al. (1988) preferences … that policies undertaken with the intent of deterring crime may, unintuitively, lead to an increase in crime. This provides …

crime. Our estimates indicate that pregnancy triggers sharp declines in arrests rivaling any known intervention, supporting … birth. Men show a sustained 20 percent decline in crime that begins at pregnancy, although arrests for domestic violence …

a solid empirical base for assessing the theoretically anticipated crime drop that would come from drug legalization … crime systemic to cocaine criminalization, the current regime is unlikely to be cost-minimizing for either marijuana or …

market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic …