The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that a formerly explicitly nonviolent nation has … been transformed into a battleground for social violence — that is, on the belief that an alarming “crime wave” is … occurring today while there was no crime at all in the past. On the basis of this assumption, the fear of crime and the call for …

rests on the economics of crime principles. The results show that the choice of the fine level has an impact both on the …

Use of public humiliation as a deterrent to crime has a long history as does the debate over its effectiveness. A …

Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal … of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model … (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime can affect economic performance. The model is based on five basic indicators …

Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal … of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model … (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime on economic performance. The model is based on five basic indicators – (i …

Crime is an illness that attacks rights of individuals. It therefore interests everybody in a society. It is argued … that as urbanization increases so does crime. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of … crime in urban areas by using cross-sectional data. The results we get indicate that per capita income, income inequality …