We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Altogether, these findings suggest that criminal identity plays a …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal …

and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …

Abstract This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime. By being the first study to use …, highlighting a potential gap in the conventional theories of economics of crime. The point-estimate of long-term unemployment for …

This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education … is a way of escaping youth inactivity and idleness, and, since youth inactivity is known to trigger crime, the self …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the …

disproportionately incarcerated. The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that … particularly increased punishment of criminal aliens. In fact, immigrants have much lower institutionalization (incarceration … relative incarceration rates, and this difference increased from 1980 to 2000. We present a model of immigrant self …

Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …. We find that in 1904 prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar for the two nativity groups for …