the sanctions against criminal activity, or of the taxation of legal incomes, may weaken the social norm against crime … increase in the crime rate. We show that law enforcement policies may have dramatic and permanent efects on the crime rate, and …

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname; half of the third parties face dictators with a noble name and half face …'s decisions to use economic punishment, and that this holds true in situations where reputation or strategic concerns have no …

equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …

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 nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For …