intelligence to guide RBT strategies; the increasing use of RBT to support other crime reduction strategies; and a genuine desire … licensed driver per annum), a misunderstanding of the role of general and specific deterrence and a lack of feedback in …, misunderstanding about the role of deterrence and lack of rewards for participating in RBT duties.----- The results of both studies …

death penalty laws across states and a simultaneous relationship between murders and the deterrence probabilities. The …

used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …

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 …

implication that crime is unaffected by the magnitude of the penalty. This paper demonstrates that to attain this outcome, it is … equilibrium yield an inverse relationship between crime and the severity of the sanction. In an application, we enrich the … interesting finding is that harsher anticorruption measures can increase crime incentives. …

include a negative socio-economic (i.e., "crime") multiplier in gambling cost/benefit analyses. ... B. Legalized Gambling as …

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …