Ivaschenko, Oleksiy; Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - In: Eastern European Economics 50 (2012) 4, pp. 21-41
The paper investigates crime rate dynamics and its determinants using a panel data set for the Russian regions over the period 1995-2007. We focus on the determinants of convergence and divergence of crime rates across regions, focusing on the periods of economic turbulence such as the 1998...