and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …

environmental regulation. Optimal sanctions for environmental crime are discussed as well as problems arising in case of corporate … environmental crime. The effectiveness of environmental criminal law is generally addressed as well as the consequences of various …

treated as either a full excuse or no defense at all; optimal punishment schemes require abandonments to be treated as … deviations from strict readings of the law can be minimized by moving more closely towards the optimal punishment schemes …

commentators: in making a cost-benefit analysis, an offender will take into account not just the net benefits from the crime, but … criminal misconduct. First, offenders make irreversible (or costly to reverse) decisions when they plan a crime - their … cannot be undone. Second, offenders face uncertainty regarding the returns from a crime, the likelihood of detection, and …

We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech … of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible … for the post-1989 growth in crime on a panel dataset of Czech regions. The results show significant deterrence effects for …

This paper reports on a new methodology to estimate the "cost of crime." We adapt the contingent valuation method used … in the environmental economics literature to estimate the public's willingness-to-pay for reductions in crime. In a … and $150 per year for crime control programs that reduced specific crimes by 10% in their communities. In the aggregate …