police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the …

prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in … effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share of the foreign-born population on anti-foreigner hate crime. Our … county-level analysis shows that not simply the size of regional asylum seeker inflows drives the increase in hate crime, but …

between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … importance of the relationship are conditional on the crime rate: The partial effect is significantly positive for moderately low …

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