The literature has suggested several approaches to explain violent crime, such as the heat hypothesis that more … violence is associated to very hot temperature. However, the manifold determinants of violent crime in society are hardly known …

This paper has two goals. The first is to show that the heat hypothesis provides a partial explanation of violent crime … violent crime. In particular, the findings here seem in general to support the hypothesis that differences between countries … inequality may overpower the role of hot weather and seasonal variation of temperature to explain the level of violent crime in …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context. …

There is a consensus that inequality increases the supply of crime. As disparity in income grows within a society, the … inequality in an equilibrium model of crime and private protection. We show that inequality unambiguously increases investment in … private protection, but the relationship between inequality and crime is ambiguous …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …

, have regarded the growing inequality as one of the most serious economic problems of the modern world. In 2015, half of … world's wealth was in hands of 1% of the population, and by 2030 the richest 1% may own two-thirds of the wealth. One reason …

Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through … theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between crime and socio economic indicators. After which I test the hypothesis … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and …

We analyse property crime in an economy composed of a large number of heterogeneous individuals who need to protect … themselves. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and victims … equates the average returns to crime. The supply and toleration for crime are endogenized taking into account incentives to …