diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …

a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

-and-matching frictions between criminals and crime opportunities. The study examines the impact on the four largest cities in North America … crimes while decreasing burglaries and sexual offenses through a reduction of crime opportunities. …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …