a climate for firm growth, and may be confiscatory. Each agent owns one firm, and we define an illegal action (crime) as … relationship between the level of crime and uncertain political structure …

analyse the spatial correlation between gangs and violent crime. Gang areas form in areas with higher unemployment, lower … that are gang territories have higher levels of crime in various crime categories. Both having a gang in an area and … proximity to a gang correlate positively with violent crime. We estimate the short-term effect of disrupting a gang within a …

with prosecutors. This causes an increase in the crime rate and in wrongly-convicted innocent defendants. Because citizens …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

This paper uses data from 1991–2015 to examine the relationship between crime, GDP per capita, inflation, and … crime level in India, and vice versa …

the theory, studying how thieves react to changes in monetary gains from crime.Methods: Using a unique crime-level dataset … variation in metal prices represents a quasi-experimental variation in gains from crime. It is because (i) people steal copper … results are in line with the economic model of crime, wherein criminal behavior is modeled as a rational agent's decision …

above the cutoff experience increases in police of about 3.2% and declines in victimization cost-weighted crime of about 3 …I exploit a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of police on crime. The American Recovery and Reinvestment … robbery, larceny, and auto theft, with suggestive evidence that police reduce murders as well. Crime reductions associated …