Half of all finance and insurance firms in Norway report that they are exposed to economic crime, particularly fraud … economic crime. However, the estimated fraction of unreported, non-registered economic crime in the country is ninety … the main economic crime categories of fraud, theft, manipulation, and corruption as used by scholars to study the survey …

a crime is greater than the expected cost associated with it. The size of the police force increases the expected cost … effect of police on crime and results are not uniform. This paper is an attempt to test the same in Indian context (for … selected crime categories). It is found that police force acts as a deterrent for violent crimes (Murder, Kidnapping & Murder …

how the Equitable Sharing rule influenced crime and police incentives by taking advantage of pre-existing differences in …In 1984 the federal government passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. The act included language that permitted … state level civil forfeiture law and the timing of the CCCA. We find that after the CCCA, crime fell upwards of 13.4 percent …

The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non … crime. Also the socio-economic background in terms of unemployment, poverty, and inequality proves significant for both … property and violent crime. Whereas local inequality only shows an effect on crime committed by resident offenders, crime …

intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …

related to the activity of organized crime, as homicide, extortion, drug-trafficking or usury. Petty crimes are estimated to …, the signaling role of the policy, and other forms of social control) rather than induced by organized crime itself. …

incentives and deter crime in the long run. …

important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity … education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a …