structurally distorted in the institutions and policies of American industrial relations. The fall of the ‘social contract’ is the …

We analyze property crime in an endowment economy composed of a large number of heterogeneous individuals who need to … protect themselves, choose whether to participate in crime or not, and decide on how to allocate their predation efforts … across victims. The equilibrium posits perfect foresight by all and the crime payoff clears the market between victims …

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

indicators and income inequality. We find empirical evidence to state that the institutional background is essential to explain … the size of SE; income inequality is weakly correlated with SE; the level of GDP is correlated positively with SE as …

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some … not only is there a negative and statistically significant relationship between inequality and crime in Brazil, and that … inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement error in inequality by using the relationship between migration and …

Starting from Becker’s seminal paper we review the first contributions to the economics of crime, stressing how with … account the probability of being arrested and punished and the expected returns from crime. Criminal decision is an economic … the main recent contributions to the economics of crime; in particular we outline the determinants of criminal behaviours …

This study employs state-level panel data to examine the effect of income inequality on crime in the United States …. Using panel cointegration techniques, we find a significant negative effect of inequality on crime. …