offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …

prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

This paper presents a new theory of crime where leaders transmit a crime technology and act as a role model for other … criminals. We show that, in equilibrium, an individual's crime effort and criminal decisions depend on the geodesic distance to …