The size and reach of the market in illicit products and services reflect patterns of globalization, economic growth … infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized and new entrepreneurial crime groups have … considers how responses to transnational crime can amplify or diminish its hidden power …

"In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer …