Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between …