lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model la Becker, allowing … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased … substitutability of products raises or lowers the prevalence of criminal behavior can be clearly linked to the impact of such behavior …

lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model à la Becker … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased … substitutability of products raises or lowers the prevalence of criminal behavior can be clearly linked to the impact of such behavior …

-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a higher detection probability and higher sanctions. In addition … subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative … theories of crime, namely strain theory. …

lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model à la Becker … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased … substitutability of products raises or lowers the prevalence of criminal behavior can be clearly linked to the impact of such behavior …

observable and unobservable private precautions against crime. An analysis of welfare implications determines that a setting in …

This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises … between detection probabilities where detection of an individual crime may result in the uncovering of the collective crime as …

This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private … information. In a framework in which potential criminals can choose between different crime opportunities, we establish that …