police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

Becker's economic theory of crime and punishment, originally published in The Journal of Political Economy in 1968 under the … of Biopolitics and Discipline and Punish) and Becker's economic theory of crime, builds on the previous confrontation … title “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach.” In this historic, second encounter at the University of Chicago, Gary …

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 …

, that income taxation reduces the social costs of crime and law enforcement and generally increases the optimal level of …

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 …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …