Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property … crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK that households of South Asian descent … neighbourhood-level panel on reported crime and difference-in-differences, we find that burglaries in South Asian neighbourhoods are …