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

Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …

and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …

Abstract This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime. By being the first study to use …, highlighting a potential gap in the conventional theories of economics of crime. The point-estimate of long-term unemployment for …

This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education … is a way of escaping youth inactivity and idleness, and, since youth inactivity is known to trigger crime, the self …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the …

the school schedule on the dynamics of youth crime. When school is not in session, students commit more property offences …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …