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 … theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between crime and socio economic indicators. After which I test the hypothesis …

Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household … income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that …. The relationship between trade shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime …

-police tensions in high-crime, low-income areas of Florida. This paper argues that the Florida legislature should take steps to … protect certain individuals who may unwittingly find themselves caught in the broad net of this crime. Part II of this paper … defendant’s flight was not “unprovoked” or “headlong,” and (3) disputing the site of arrest as a “high-crime area.” Part III …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …

Crime is a major economic and social problem in most developing countries. However, the research devoted to victims is … susceptibility to crime in South Africa. An instrumental variables strategy combined with community fixed effects are used to account …

effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …

sector have risen significantly across most states in post-liberalization India. Using this as a benchmark, we formalize a … movements of real wage in the informal sector in India and how this affects poverty at the state level. The basic result on …