The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the … crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious and widespread one, hit-and-run road accidents. In fact, it is not only …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the … crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious and widespread one, hit-and-run road accidents. In fact, it is not only …

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. …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … relatively "gutless" people from committing a minor offense, the signaling value of that action increases, which makes it … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal …

committing moderately violent acts, which raises the signaling value of that action, and thus makes it more attractive for …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … relatively 'gutless' people from committing a minor offense, the signaling value of that action increases, which makes it … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … relatively 'gutless' people from committing a minor offense, the signaling value of that action increases, which makes it … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal …