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Shop crime and deterrence : evidence on shoplifting among young people in the Youth Lifestyle Survey (YLS)
Saridakis, George - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 9 (2013) 2, pp. 197-237
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231139
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Research note: Does crime deter UK tourists from visiting Trinidad and Tobago?
Saridakis, George; Sookram, Sandra; Mohammed, Anne-Marie - In: Tourism economics : the business and finance of tourism … 19 (2013) 4, pp. 959-966
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010232499
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237753
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Insecurity or perception of insecurity? : urban crime and dissatisfaction with life ; evidence from the case of Bogotá
Romero, Dario - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 20 (2014) 1, pp. 169-208
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238306
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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014
their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239272
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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social …
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Does the link between unemployment and crime depend on the crime level? : a quantile regression approach
Entorf, Horst; Sieger, Philip - 2014
between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … importance of the relationship are conditional on the crime rate: The partial effect is significantly positive for moderately low …
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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals
Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014
to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386014
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and the criminal activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013
that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199688