To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

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 …

This paper critically reviews a vast array of literature on the costs of crime and common violence. Using a simple … economic model of crime as a theoretical benchmark, we conceptually discuss the estimates available and their potential use as …

This paper analyses the repercussions of the high level of criminal violence in Latin America on the economy of the … violence has had a significant negative effect on investment and economic growth. …

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …

association between cities, violence, and disorder is not new, however. In a classic article on 'Urbanism as a way of life', Louis … Wirth (1938: 23) famously links cities to 'personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide, delinquency, crime … necessarily lead to urban violence. This is a standpoint that is further reinforced by the fact that not all cities around the …

How do changes in mobility impact crime? Using police precinct-level daily crime statistics and shootings data from the …, despite fewer people being on the streets. To address the relationship between crime and mobility, we use cellphone data and … strongly affected extortion and property crimes while not interfering with the dynamics of violent crime. These findings …

reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …