therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk … pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine … limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of …

model of the adjustment of sentences assuming that the state's objective is the optimal deterrence of crime. In the model …

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of … hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert … more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate crime. These differences also have previously unrecognized effects on …

. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …

In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer …

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to … deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to apply it to the case where guns are used for crime commission by … offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and …

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 …

on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate to lower-poverty areas reduces arrests among female youth for … violent and property crimes, relative to a control group. For males the offer to relocate reduces arrests for violent crime …, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …

expected price of committing crime. This implicit price can be substantially raised by making prison sentences longer, but only …