This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging … have reduced the rate of crime, through the incapacitation of criminals and through the deterrent effect of potential … arrest and imprisonment. But administrative records show no such drop in crime and the victims survey shows a fall far below …

rates, on seven major categories of crime. We propose a theoretical model from which the positive macro relationship between … the unemployment rate and the crime rate is explicitly derived. The solution of the proposed model shows the concurrent … counter-cyclical movements of the unemployment and crime rates, which is found to be consistent with the U.S. time series data …

Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …

Few empirical studies of the economics of crime have doubted the deterrent effects of the legal sanctions on crime …. Those studies, however, have not established a definitive understanding of the effects of labor market conditions on crime … labor force participation rates, on seven major categories of crime, using the quarterly crime-rate data for the United …

beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …

Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte NBER … interest in discerning the impact of this costly increase on crime rates. Estimates of impact vary. We obtain new estimates of … higher levels of imprisonment and increases in labor force participation of women are related to significantly higher crime …

and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime due to the war on drugs. Exploiting the … fact that the timing, virulence and spatial distribution of changes in violent crime were unanticipated, we establish the … that are fixed over time. As local-area violent crime increases, there is a rise in risk aversion that is distributed …

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …

completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a … in imprisonment to estimate the causal effect of incarceration on adult crime and on high school completion … no impact on future violent crime, but it lowers the propensity to commit property crime. Juvenile incarceration …