to allocate their disposable time between education, crime and work in the legal sector. Education has a multiple role …: it implies higher expected wages in the legal sector, increasing the opportunity cost of committing crime and it has a …

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 …

Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, drug traffic, and … and crime. On the basis of essays written by secondary school students and interviews with citizens from all walks of life … in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are translated into everyday life …

Border crime rates lie consistently below the national average. In the 1990s, however, while there as a large decline … in property-related crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, violent crime rates began to converge to the national average. At … this paper, we investigate the relationship between border county crime rates, immigration and enforcement since the early …

We explore the influence of city-level business cycle fluctuations on crime in 20 large cities in the United States … unemployment and wages, are found to have little effect on city crime across many cities, but property crimes were more likely to … find strong evidence that in many cities more arrests follow from an increase in crime rather than arrests leading to a …

. The paper thus asks why violence and crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national …Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three … issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has …

show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that increases … in youth unemployment induce increases in crime. Using the predicted industrial structure to instrument unemployment, we … show that this effect is causal for burglaries, thefts, and drug offences. To combat crime, it appears thus that all …