to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

Abstract This paper extends the Becker (1968)-Ehrlich (1973) model of crime to allow for government transfers. Using … in turn allows an integration of a crime model with a standard public finance model. Using King et al. (1988) preferences … that policies undertaken with the intent of deterring crime may, unintuitively, lead to an increase in crime. This provides …

Do jobs and income-transfer programs affect crime? The answer depends on why one is asking the question, which shapes … what one means by "crime." Many studies focus on understanding why overall crime rates vary across people, places, and time … understand what to do about the crime problem, the focus will instead be on serious violent crimes, which account for the …