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 …

Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and empirical works investigating the … determinants of crime. However, there is a dearth of literature in the context of developing countries. This paper is an attempt to …, poverty,, urbanization and education) on crime rates in India. State-level data is collected on the above variables for the …

: Incidence of crime in India has been mounting at a fast pace , especially during the last decade. Moreover, crime on … body seems to be increasing in comparison to crime on property. Economics and Sociology literature on crime attributes … labour market as a transmitting institution for crime. This paper is an attempt to understand the issue of crime in India as …

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 …