aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …

This paper contains a documentation of the EU regional crime database (EURCD). The EURCD is the basis of the analyses … presented in our recently published book 'Crime in Europe' which, in turn, is the result of a research project conducted on … behalf of the EU Commission. The EURCD is a panel dataset containing information on 12 Interpol crime categories (murder, sex …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …