Criminals and Victims presents an economic analysis of decisions made by criminals and victims of crime before, during, and after a crime or victimization occurs. Its main purpose is to illustrate how the application of analytical tools from economics can help us to understand the causes and...

Economic analysis of self-protection against crime has a lengthy history, but we have not extensively investigated how people simultaneously engage in self-protection alongside routine activities that expose individuals to the risk of crime victimization in the first place – behaviors such as...