Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e … - 2012
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose … theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affect their propensity to commit crime … from the literature on the determinants of crime. …