offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the … German survey data covering victimization experiences and criminal activities. Using recursive bivariate Probit modeling …, econometric results confirm that victimization depends on offending but not vice versa. Among the joint covariates of the …

A stylized fact in criminology holds that those who commit crimes are more likely to be victims of crime, and vice … victimization and offending. This analysis reveals that victim-offender overlap predominantly reflects population heterogeneity …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …

We survey the literature on index crime, paying particular attention to spatial issues. We note the contrasting … punish them). The economics of crime has several points of contact with the economics of space, since the commission of an … index crime requires proximity between offenders and victims (or their property). We explore these linkages, as well as a …

U.S. law requires the Attorney General to collect data on hate crime victimization from states and municipalities, but … Google search rates for a racial epithet. As a benchmark of accurate hate crime data, it uses two alternative definitions of … which jurisdictions more effectively collect hate crime data: all states that were not part of the erstwhile Confederacy …

related to the activity of organized crime, as homicide, extortion, drug-trafficking or usury. Petty crimes are estimated to …, the signaling role of the policy, and other forms of social control) rather than induced by organized crime itself. …

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 …

incentives and deter crime in the long run. …

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