authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …

more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also …

In the last three decades Argentina tripled its crime rate boosting safety at the top of mayor concerns of Argentineans … which leaves open the question about the behavior of incumbent governors of the 23 provinces about anti-crime measures in … the proximity of elections. How do incumbent governors react to escalating crime as elections come closer? This paper …

National Crime Victimization Surveys, I proxy these higher costs by victim’s education and income, relationship to the …

A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a … few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime … total crime although the effect was rather weak. The analyses of various types of crime show that the influence of the …

briefly allowed to link the perpetrator to his alter ego, victim or partner-in-crime, wherein are forged the origins of means … interplay of culture and pathology, especially in matters of white collar crime, which is used throughout as the focus. By way …

mitigate their probability of victimization to crime. However, evaluating the effect of such private security measures remains … understudied in the economics of crime literature. Unlike most previous studies, the present analysis considers four separate …’s ‘market model’ suggests private security is endogenous to crime, the analysis relies primarily on dynamic panel data methods …

This paper provides further evidence on the impact of crime on the job market using the time series data over the … period 1980-2007 for Argentina. We also address methodological flaws by earlier crime studies by employing autoregressive … statistically positive effect on the crime rate, depending on the model used. …