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Estimating a crime equation in the presence of organized crime : evidence from Italy

Marselli, Riccardo - In: International review of law and economics 17 (1997) 1, pp. 89-113

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Reati, mercato, moneta e Stato : l'analisi economica del crimine in Italia

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A model of a predatory state

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Criminal Trajectories in Organized Crime

van Koppen, M. Vere - 2012

This paper investigates criminal trajectories of individuals who are involved in organized crime. A semiparametric group-model is used to cluster 854 individuals into groups with similar developmental trajectories. The most important findings of the study relate to the substantial group of...

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How do Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions affect crime? : evidence from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bullock, Jessie; Pellegrino, Ana Paula - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 147-163

How do changes in mobility impact crime? Using police precinct-level daily crime statistics and shootings data from the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we estimate that extortion, theft, and robberies decrease by at least 41.6% following COVID-19 mandated stay-at-home orders and changes in...

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Gangs and Knife Crime in London

Kirchmaier, Tom - 2020

We describe the socio-economic characteristics of street-gang areas in London, explore gang formation dynamics, and analyse the spatial correlation between gangs and violent crime. Gang areas form in areas with higher unemployment, lower education, and a higher proportion of lone-parent...

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The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State

Konrad, Kai A. - 2005

We examine a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-profit entrepreneurs (kings, kleptocrats, or mafia dons). Though self-governance is best for the population, it faces problems of long-term viability. Typically, in providing security...

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Dis-Organised Crime : Towards a Distributed Model of the Organization of Cybercrime

Wall, David S. - 2015

Mafia-driven organised crime groups. Yet, this rhetorical narrative is not supported by research into the organisation of … online crime groupings which finds that the organisation of crime online follows a different logic to the organisation of … findings identify instead a ‘disorganised' or distributed model of organization, rather than a hierarchical command and control …

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