The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the … interpretation of the estimates. There is no evidence that immigrants increase crime. …

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. …

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …

. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …