We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … render their criminal identity more salient in their minds. An additional placebo experiment with regular citizens shows that …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that … regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …

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 …

We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test the external validity of a common laboratory … worry about getting caught. We linked the responses from the lab experiment with three measures of school misconduct (i …