This paper has two goals. The first is to show that the heat hypothesis provides a partial explanation of violent crime … violent crime. In particular, the findings here seem in general to support the hypothesis that differences between countries … inequality may overpower the role of hot weather and seasonal variation of temperature to explain the level of violent crime in …

In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and … political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things … Christianity and a military-security-industrial complex in search for new - mostly imaginary - enemies. Counterfeit Crime is savage …

state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be … more relevant. Controlling Crime considers alternative ways to reduce crime that do not sacrifice public safety. Among the …, drugs, and private crime prevention. Particular attention is paid to the respective roles of both the private sector and …

"In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer … horizons or across countries. This conclusion applies both to policy variables like arrest rates or capital punishment and to …