This study uses unit record data from the Queensland Crime Victim Survey to analyse the joint likelihood of becoming a … victim of, and being afraid of becoming a victim of, crime …

more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also … culturally distanced countries in Africa and Asia appear more likely to view using violence for political goals as justified … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

for some years, evidencing a positive net effect for those years of drug prohibition on violence. This result calls for … policies. On the other hand, our proxy for income inequality is not related to violence, while its relationship with poverty is …

more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also … culturally distanced countries in Africa and Asia appear more likely to view using violence for political goals as justified … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

proprietary insecurity. In some countries, the questions of crime, violence, and victimization are attracting more attention from …The recent upward trend in crime rates of developing countries has spurred widespread public concern about personal and … related to crime and victimization from an economic perspective. For this purpose the paper combines a review of the main …

more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also … culturally distanced countries in Africa and Asia appear more likely to view using violence for political goals as justified … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

-personal firms who use no violence. …

In this paper we study, having as theoretical reference the economic model of crime (Becker, 1968; Ehrlich, 1973 …), which are the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of crime in Spain paying attention on the role of provincial … peculiarities. We estimate a crime equation using a panel dataset of Spanish provinces (NUTS3) for the period 1993 to 1999 employing …

determine the effects of education and past incidence of crime on criminal activity, and we test its predictions using annual … with delinquency and that crime rates display persistence over time. Our results are robust to model specifications and …