This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard … work does not pay and that the government should increase the amount of redistribution to the poor. -- Happiness ; crime …

a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …

regressions with all possible combinations of variables for up to 180 countries during the period of 1995-2010, I show that crime …