. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new … series are made available in full, to allow other researchers to explore the consequences and causes of incarceration. …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the Australian incarceration rate has risen by 130 percent, and now stands at 0.22 percent of …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal …

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

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context. …