Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose concerns ? ]s … it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has a … safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern for …

This article analyses the effects of public expenditure on the Bolsa Família Program on the Brazilian crime rate. It …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue …

level of economic inequality, the institutional strength and law enforcement capacity of the state, and whether there are … reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit …

.) So after last week’s review of Cory Doctorow’s book Red Team Blues, I tweeted the relation between income inequality and … patterns. Back to the tweet. Taleb is implying that the relation between inequality and murder is essentially a random blob of …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …

effort against crime. Among the implications of the model are that rising inequality will lead to more expenditure on … income class. Taking into account the response of criminals and victims, rising inequality can actually lead to less crime if … middle class suffers from higher crime densities as inequality increases, as the increased spending on protection by the …

Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by … the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of … mandated political representation of the low castes to examine its effect on crime reports by these people. Mandated political …