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

often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but … legalizing the status of immigrants has beneficial effects on crime rates. Crucially, the evidence points to substantial …

often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but … legalizing the status of immigrants has beneficial effects on crime rates. Crucially, the evidence points to substantial …

construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …

How can the regularization of approximately half a million migrant's impact crime reports in hosting areas? To identify … department-monthly data from crime reports and compare crime outcomes in departments that were granted different average time … a reduction of domestic crime and an increment on sexual crime reports. Both results are in line with qualitative …

framework based on a predator/prey model of crime, where endogenous migration decisions and career choices (between licit and … illicit activities) are jointly determined. In this setting, we show that the involvement of migrants in crime crucially … depends on self-selection into migration, as well as on productivity and institutional quality in the host economy. In …

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … childhood as a result of migration is associated with increased criminality in adulthood. Control functions and sibling fixed … effects are used to identify causal impacts. Parental absence due to migration is found to increase the propensity of adult …