This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...

We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by equating the sum of the reductions of the expected property losses due to a better service level...

Sicherheit ist ein Wirtschaftsgut, weil Sicherheit nützlich und knapp ist. Dieses Gut kann vom Staat als auch von Privaten bereitgestellt werden. Das Paper untersucht (a) den Zusammenhang zwischen Kriminalstrafe und Sicherheit und (b) die Privatisierung der Kriminalitätskontrolle. Es werden...