, corrupted police officers, and the power of the organized crime. Naturally, poverty and warfare contribute to the rising tide of … human trafficking in illegal migration and the role played by the national and transnational organized crime. The …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

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 …

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 …

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 …

likely to do so in the near future. Policy makers and the general press have argued that these measures reduce crime. In this … of dry laws on the ultimate form of violent crime: murder. Between March 2001 and August 2004, 16 out of the 39 …-adopting cities, we estimate that dry laws reduce homicides by at least 10%, with an even higher effect in high crime cities. Results …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

commit crime by about two percentage points for juveniles but has no impact on damaging property. The results indicate that … between siblings and twins indicate that drug use has a significant impact on the propensity to commit crime. We find that the … inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …

impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teens use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …