The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

related to the activity of organized crime, as homicide, extortion, drug-trafficking or usury. Petty crimes are estimated to …, the signaling role of the policy, and other forms of social control) rather than induced by organized crime itself. …

important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity … education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

suggesting that dispensaries help reduce crime by reducing vacant buildings and putting more security in these areas. We also … policies that would legalize marijuana recreational markets frequently argue that such laws will eliminate crime associated … with the black markets, which many argue is the only link between marijuana use and crime. Law enforcement, however, has …

DCM induced an 11 percent reduction in criminal incidents involving arrestees ages 19 to 25, driven by property crime … care, increased educational attainment, and increases in parent-adult child cohabitation may explain these crime declines … crime reduction. …

incentives and deter crime in the long run. …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …