This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private … information. In a framework in which potential criminals can choose between different crime opportunities, we establish that …

This paper demonstrates that increasing the expected sanction for a crime may increase this crime's prevalence, using a … principal–agent model with different kinds of crime that is typical of organized crime. The intuition for the finding is that … the policy change may increase the principal's expected payoff from crime by decreasing the information rent required by …

is higher in the southern United States than in the North, the relation between the severity of punishment and crime, and …

This paper deals with the effect of gun laws on crime. Several empirical analyses are carried to investigate the … relationship between five different crime rates and alternative law variables. The tests are based on cross-section data from US …, unemployment and ethnic background of the population. Empirical analysis does not lend support to the notion that crime laws would …

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent–son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent–son associations in crime. When considering the extensive margin, we find that pre-birth and …

tourist activity on crime rates in the Spanish provinces during the period 2000-2008. We use both 2-SLS and GMM techniques in …

Terrorism and crime, particularly organised crime with its close links to terrorism, currently constitute the greatest … challenges to the domestic security of the Maghreb states Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauretania. Additional challenges have … culminated in the ousting of regimes. Terrorism and organised crime are, to varying extents, prevalent in all Maghreb states and …

. We have demonstrated that fiscal policies affect crime through government spending. Conversely, the effect of monetary … policy, especially inflation, on crime depends on the separability of the utility function. …