On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime

This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises when individuals can commit crimes both individually and as part of a collective. Our result is based on an interdependence between detection probabilities where detection of an individual crime may result in the uncovering of the collective crime as well.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Baumann, Florian ; Friehe, Tim
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 30.2010, 3, p. 2371-2379
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	Law enforcement \| Crime \| Collective Crime

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Classification:	K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior ; D0 - Microeconomics. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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