Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment with criminals in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence and …

greater amount of crime than non-tourist ones in the short and long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à … la Becker (Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach, 1968) and Enrlich (Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A … test whether total crime in Italy is affected by the presence of tourists. Findings confirm the initial intuition of a …

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 … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the anti-crime program Comuna Segura: Compromiso 100 had on the …

Generally, crime cannot be perceived directly, but rather only indirectly through media coverage. In terms of the … how local and regional German newspapers report crime. To answer this question, a standardised content analysis of 31 … newspapers was conducted. The findings show that newspaper articles about crime take up a small, yet clearly perceivable space …

's largest penal colony. It holds over seven million adults – roughly five per cent of the labour force – in jail, in prison, on … upward redistribution of income and the capitalization of power? Can soaring incarceration sustain the unprecedented power of … the 1930s and the 2000s, unemployment increased sharply, but crime and the severity of punishment, instead of rising …