In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer …

How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book … explain violence, then it must also facilitate insights into promoting peace and security. If we can approach violence as …

In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer …

How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book … explain violence, then it must also facilitate insights into promoting peace and security. If we can approach violence as …

The dynamic model developed in this paper provides possible economic explanations for many observed patterns of crime …, what effects does a society’s past or nature of its individuals’ social exposure (for example, segregation) have on crime … hypothesis that an individual’s estimates are influenced by his past observations of variables such as the prevalence of crime …