The reasons for the deficient performance of Ionian Islands tourism in terms of in coming revenues expressed in USD and … were analyzed with the use of the Decision Tree tool. The issue of competitiveness of the tourism product was assessed. The … development of alternative forms of tourism is proposed as a means of improving competitiveness and restoring sustainability in …

Using a Two-Stage Least Squares procedure, we estimate the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and police … and accounting for simultaneity bias, ethnic fragmentation is positively related to police spending. Our paper contributes … to the understanding of the stylized fact that public spending on police increased over a period in which the incidence …

This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use … ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization scheme is helping the state police departments in enhancing their … performance, i.e., the police departments which have more modern communication equipments and which are spending more money on the …

significance of police discrimination against social groups. This paper presents and applies a nonparametric test that is robust to … drivers. More particularly, there is evidence of police bias against African American male and Latino drivers by all officers … and no evidence of police bias against white male drivers by any group of officers. …

National Crime Victimization Surveys, I proxy these higher costs by victim’s education and income, relationship to the …

A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a … few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime … total crime although the effect was rather weak. The analyses of various types of crime show that the influence of the …

Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and empirical works investigating the … determinants of crime. However, there is a dearth of literature in the context of developing countries. This paper is an attempt to … address this deficiency. The paper investigates the relative impact of deterrence variables (load on police force, arrest …