We construct linked register data on five Norwegian birth cohorts, covering: criminal charges after age 15; family … characteristics and history up to age 15; and (for males) IQ test scores. A longitudinal analysis of the risk of initiation into crime … disruptive family events including divorce or maternal death during childhood. There is a relationship between continuity of …

offending rates five years prior to and after five different family-related transitions. Leading criminological theories predict … that marriage and fatherhood has a preventive effect on crime, with marriage receiving most support by empirical research …. The last decades’ major changes in family patterns warrant a re-examination of the marriage effect. We argue that marriage …

This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

aim is to test the hypothesis that crime rates (and specifically, motor vehicle-related crimes) may be considered as …

The connection between crime and road safety is a relatively recent topic in academic research, although most studies … current member states of the European Union over the 1999–2010 period. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that crime rates (and …

health remain poorly understood. This paper analyzes the effects of legalization of Sunday packaged liquor sales on crime …-difference estimates indicate the liberalization increased minor crime by 5% and alcohol-involved serious crime by 10%. The law change did … not affect domestic crime or induce significant geographic or inter-temporal crime displacement. The costs of this …