reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit … level of economic inequality, the institutional strength and law enforcement capacity of the state, and whether there are …

effort against crime. Among the implications of the model are that rising inequality will lead to more expenditure on … income class. Taking into account the response of criminals and victims, rising inequality can actually lead to less crime if … middle class suffers from higher crime densities as inequality increases, as the increased spending on protection by the …

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some … not only is there a negative and statistically significant relationship between inequality and crime in Brazil, and that … inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement error in inequality by using the relationship between migration and …

eff ort against crime. Among the implications of the model are that rising inequality will lead to more expenditure on … income class. Taking into account the response of criminals and victims, rising inequality can actually lead to less crime if … middle class suff ers from higher crime densities as inequality increases, as the increased spending on protection by the …

Starting from Becker’s seminal paper we review the first contributions to the economics of crime, stressing how with … account the probability of being arrested and punished and the expected returns from crime. Criminal decision is an economic … the main recent contributions to the economics of crime; in particular we outline the determinants of criminal behaviours …

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among … heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and … victims equates the average returns to crime. We borrow from the literature on the economics of conflicts in order to define …

of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to … heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative effect on aggregate crime rates. However, our findings indicate that … a minimum of one year is required following the implementation of the obligations for a decline in crime rates to occur …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs-crime channel within …

Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime … beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them … to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates …

Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime … beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them … to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates …