We examine the gap in registered crime between the children of immigrants and the children of native Swedes. Our study … underprivileged in those resources, a gap in crime may occur. In the empirical analyses we follow all individuals who completed …, which are measured in 2005. For males, we are generally able to explain between half and three-quarters of this gap in crime …

forms of political representation: large scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against them more than …

This paper demonstrates that increasing the expected sanctions for a crime may increase this crime's prevalence, using …'s expected payoff from crime by decreasing the information rent required by the agent. …

In the last decades, the interest in the relationship between crime and business cy- cle has widely increased. It is a … detect some comovements between the business cycle and the cyclical component of some typologies of crime, which could … evidence some relationships between these variables; a second purpose is to select which crime types are related to the …

The recent upward trend in crime rates of developing countries has spurred widespread public concern about personal and … proprietary insecurity. In some countries, the questions of crime, violence, and victimization are attracting more attention from … related to crime and victimization from an economic perspective. For this purpose the paper combines a review of the main …

We present a theoretical model postulating that the relationship between crime and governance is "hump-shaped" rather … for this non-linear relationship. The occurrence, persistence and intensity of small-scale maritime crime are well … approximated by a quadratic relationship with governance quality. Organised crime benefits from corrupt yet effective bureaucrats …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …