Private expenditures on crime reduction have potentially important externalities. Observable measures such as barbed …-wire fences and deadbolt locks may shift crime to those who are unprotected, imposing a negative externality. Unobservable … precautions, on the other hand, may provide positive externalities since criminals cannot determine a priori who is protected …

market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic …

This report summarizes the results of a project which investigated the time series interrelationships between crime …

therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk … pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine … limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of …

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of cross-state externalities associated with gun regulations … in the context of the gun trafficking market. Using gun tracing data, which identify the source state for crime guns … strict gun laws, satisfying a necessary condition for the existence of cross-state externalities in the theoretical model. We …