"Much of the concern about immigration adversely affecting crime derives from the fact that immigrants tend to have … immigration and crime led to legislation in the 1990s increasing punishments toward criminal aliens. Despite the widespread … perception of a link between immigration and crime, immigrants have much lower institutionalization (incarceration) rates than …

equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …

."Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines,"NBER Chapters,in: Controlling Crime: Strategies and TradeoffsNational …