The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs-crime channel within …

gang activity and violent crime than is widely accepted. While areas with more gang activity also have more violence, our … theory suggests gangs form as protection agencies precisely in areas with high violent crime rates. While gangs, like … governments, use violence to enforce rules, the net impact of gangs is to lower violent crime. We test this hypothesis and offer …

and the occurrence of property crime …

We develop a model of crime and self-defense that provides a rationale both for the right to bear arms and for … regulating this right. It also suggests that a severe punishment for gun crime might best guarantee both the security and freedom …

and envy within the family, to explore hate crimes, also known as bias-motivated crimes. After developing a hate crime … economic framework, we make use of a unique data set on hate crime data compiled by the FBI since 1992 to estimate the … the use of bias-motivation crime data in empirical analysis, we are able to uncover interesting and thought …

Agents may commit a crime twice. The act is inefficient so that the agents are to be deterred. Even if an agent is law … probability of apprehension. If the benefit from the crime is small, the optimal sanction scheme is decreasing in the number of …

We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property … crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK that households of South Asian descent … neighbourhood-level panel on reported crime and difference-in-differences, we find that burglaries in South Asian neighbourhoods are …

Private protection and public policing interact in the fight against property crime. While property owners tailor their …

crime rates in U.S. cities located along the border, between 1992 and 2017. We find that, for cities along the U … property crime rates and that increased border fencing is associated with significant declines in both property and violent … crime rates. Further investigation into the underlying mechanism provides evidence that border control measures are …