Becker's theory of crime, penalties must be at least as high as expected benefits to deter crimes. For example, we start by …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …

masses. After some small property crimes, they thought that a "perfect" major crime, committed without emotion or detection …

design, I find that gun-related homicides decreased by 12.2 percent, with the reduction especially pronounced in high-crime …

desuetude insofar as it potentially covers a broader range of crimes by asking not just whether a crime has been enforced, but … constrains a judge’s analysis of a potentially dead crime to a means-end assessment under the familiar intermediate-scrutiny tier …