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 …

deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of … currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the …

There is ambiguity in the empirical studies of crime economics regarding various income variables used to proxy the … expected net gains from crime. As a result, the empirical findings are often mixed or contradictory to one another. This note … provides a theoretical argument that relates the net expected gains from crime to a measure of income inequality (the Gini …