Income Variables and the Measures of Gains from Crime

There is ambiguity in the empirical studies of crime economics regarding various income variables used to proxy the expected net gains from crime. As a result, the empirical findings are often mixed or contradictory to one another. This note provides a theoretical argument that relates the net expected gains from crime to a measure of income inequality (the Gini coefficient) and the mean income of a society, thereby clarifying the ambiguity

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Choe, Chongwoo
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Kriminalitätsökonomik \| Economics of crime \| Gini-Koeffizient \| Gini coefficient \| Kriminalität \| Crime

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (10 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; K00 - Law and Economics. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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