and other types of crime. Using a panel of the 50 US states observed between 1981 and 2005 and the Economic Freedom Index … measured by this index and homicide rates. The results nevertheless show that other types of crime decrease with liberalizing … spending or tax reforms. Effects of liberalizing tax reforms in particular may spill over from less violent crime to lower …

. Neoliberalism's place ranges from the core of neo-Marxist visions of a systematic global crime control program, through its place as … ‘neoliberal' regimes' stances on crime control. There are often tenuous and very variable connections made between neoliberal … politics and crime policies. The necessary interplay of neoliberalism with other factors (other political rationalities …