corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption … corruption, implying, corruption-control offsets crime emanating beyond the corruption mechanism (inter alia, other poor …

The publication of Donohue and Levitt (2001)’s paper on the impact of legalized abortion on the decline of crime in the … setting, and the few other works were single-country studies. In this research, we aim to provide new evidence on the abortion-crime … exploitation of the different dates of abortion legalization in Europe. We perform regressions of crime rates on the share of …

This paper empirically investigates the connection between corruption and crime. Such linkage has been often … underestimated because corruption has been often analysed as a white-collar crime. In fact, it is not characterised by violence …. Recently, a theoretical connection has been suggested to highlight that corruption and crime can be considered strategic …

This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education … is a way of escaping youth inactivity and idleness, and, since youth inactivity is known to trigger crime, the self …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the …

offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the …