convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on … education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. …Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …