currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

After providing a short literature review and some empirical evidence about the turnover of organized crime, the paper … tries a quantification of the turnover of organized crime with the help of a MIMIC estimation procedure for the years 1995 … to 2006 for 20 highly developed OECD countries. The volume of turnover from organized crime was 270 billion US-Dollar in …