legalizing abortion contributes to lower crime rates. We provide an advance on previous work by focusing on the impact of … possible endogeneity of effective abortion rates with respect to crime. Our use of U.K. data allows us to exploit regional …, we are able to replicate the negative association between abortion rates and reported crime found by Donohue and Levitt …

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data …-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, we find a … strong evidence for females that criminal victimization hurts, but hurts less if the crime rate on our reference group is …

Will the recession cause a surge in crime? Economic theory suggests it might, but empirical evidence for the widely …

Crime patterns in the district vary widely, but explaining differences and trends is difficult. …

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …

to less crime, and may lead to more crime. If a criminal has the opportunity to commit multiple criminal acts and has … sanctions, may actually lead the criminal to commit more crime. The reason is that as the sanction is increased, the criminal … of committing criminal acts. But the variable cost of crime will enter into the criminal's decision process. If raising …