economical characteristics of Istanbul’s districts, which show a rise in ratios of crime, especially in the city center such as … in crime. The crime survey is conducted in the Beyoglu district between 2006 and 2008. The questionnaire results provide … an insight into the mapping of crime in Beyoglu streets. The purpose of the study with this questionnaire is also to …

Economic analysis of self-protection against crime has a lengthy history, but we have not extensively investigated how … people simultaneously engage in self-protection alongside routine activities that expose individuals to the risk of crime … patterns illustrate how individuals selectively use social and personal resources when protecting themselves against crime as …

It is conventionally believed that immigration increases crime rates in the host country. However, empirical results … are not in line with this crime concern. We develop a model with endogenous skill upgrading and criminal choices to …

This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private … information. In a framework in which potential criminals can choose between different crime opportunities, we establish that …

This paper demonstrates that increasing the expected sanction for a crime may increase this crime's prevalence, using a … principal–agent model with different kinds of crime that is typical of organized crime. The intuition for the finding is that … the policy change may increase the principal's expected payoff from crime by decreasing the information rent required by …

is higher in the southern United States than in the North, the relation between the severity of punishment and crime, and …

This paper deals with the effect of gun laws on crime. Several empirical analyses are carried to investigate the … relationship between five different crime rates and alternative law variables. The tests are based on cross-section data from US …, unemployment and ethnic background of the population. Empirical analysis does not lend support to the notion that crime laws would …

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent–son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent–son associations in crime. When considering the extensive margin, we find that pre-birth and …

tourist activity on crime rates in the Spanish provinces during the period 2000-2008. We use both 2-SLS and GMM techniques in …