Few empirical studies of the economics of crime have doubted the deterrent effects of the legal sanctions on crime …. Those studies, however, have not established a definitive understanding of the effects of labor market conditions on crime … labor force participation rates, on seven major categories of crime, using the quarterly crime-rate data for the United …

Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …

beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …

This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging … have reduced the rate of crime, through the incapacitation of criminals and through the deterrent effect of potential … arrest and imprisonment. But administrative records show no such drop in crime and the victims survey shows a fall far below …

rates, on seven major categories of crime. We propose a theoretical model from which the positive macro relationship between … the unemployment rate and the crime rate is explicitly derived. The solution of the proposed model shows the concurrent … counter-cyclical movements of the unemployment and crime rates, which is found to be consistent with the U.S. time series data …