The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring … economists, who investigate the (often two-way) intersection of crime with labor market factors, such as education, wages, and … effectively reduce crime. This comprehensive review underscores the transformative impact of economics on crime research and its …

construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …

This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violent crime in the USA. Although qualitative …-level data, we find that the percentage of slaves in the population in 1860 is linked with violent crime in 2000. This result is … specific to violent crime, robust to instrumenting for slavery and varying the approach to missing crime data, and not driven …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

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. …

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …