This paper reports on a lab-in-the-field experiment that investigates differences in rule-violating behavior between …

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …

-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the …-control is a facilitator of crime. While our study is motivated by the literature on the determinants of criminal behavior, it …

intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …

policies that would legalize marijuana recreational markets frequently argue that such laws will eliminate crime associated … with the black markets, which many argue is the only link between marijuana use and crime. Law enforcement, however, has … distribution), create crime in neighborhoods with these store-fronts. This study offers new insight into the question by exploiting …

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 …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

response to Covid-19 in New Zealand for six crime types in six cities. We then use the estimated models to forecast … counterfactual crime trajectories. Novel elements include cleanly defined lockdown periods, two distinct lockdowns with meaningful …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

incentives and deter crime in the long run. …