eff ort against crime. Among the implications of the model are that rising inequality will lead to more expenditure on … income class. Taking into account the response of criminals and victims, rising inequality can actually lead to less crime if … middle class suff ers from higher crime densities as inequality increases, as the increased spending on protection by the …

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 …

This study employs state-level panel data to examine the effect of income inequality on crime in the United States …. Using panel cointegration techniques, we find a significant negative effect of inequality on crime. …

A celebrated result in the economics of crime, which we call the Becker proposition (BP), states that it is optimal to … on enforcement costs). Several other applications, some unrelated to the economics of crime, arise when an economic agent …