a climate for firm growth, and may be confiscatory. Each agent owns one firm, and we define an illegal action (crime) as … relationship between the level of crime and uncertain political structure …

, that income taxation reduces the social costs of crime and law enforcement and generally increases the optimal level of …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …

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 …

Researchers who study crime and justice have been forecasting a variety of outcomes for nearly a century. Perhaps the … and time trends in crime. However, it is very difficult to determine how accurate such forecasts have been because few … forecasts have been properly evaluated. In the hope of improving crime and justice forecasts in the future, this article reviews …