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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …
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that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
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subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative …-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a higher detection probability and higher sanctions. In addition … theories of crime, namely strain theory. …
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This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several …
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …
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This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were …
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This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...
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This paper examines the impact of organized crime on the regional distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI …) inflows into Italy. The incidence of crime has been calculated considering the number of complaints for different crimes. The … analysis shows how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and significant. This relationship appears strong …
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