This study uses unit record data from the Queensland Crime Victim Survey to analyse the joint likelihood of becoming a … victim of, and being afraid of becoming a victim of, crime …

for some years, evidencing a positive net effect for those years of drug prohibition on violence. This result calls for … policies. On the other hand, our proxy for income inequality is not related to violence, while its relationship with poverty is …

more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also … culturally distanced countries in Africa and Asia appear more likely to view using violence for political goals as justified … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

-personal firms who use no violence. …

Despite an abundance of empirical evidence on crime spanning over forty years, there exists no consensus on the impact … of the criminal justice system on crime activity. We argue that this may be due to the combined effect of simultaneity … government areas in Australia and develop a testing framework for the implications of economic theory on crime behaviour. The …

National Crime Victimization Surveys, I proxy these higher costs by victim’s education and income, relationship to the …

A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a … few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime … total crime although the effect was rather weak. The analyses of various types of crime show that the influence of the …

The literature has typically found a positive relationship between crime rates and female headed households. Female …. This study explores the relationship between female owned firms and losses due to crime experienced by firms using data for … firms and losses due to crime, the results may suggest that the reason may be a gender bias in the incidence of crime. We …