enforcers means higher probability of detecting a crime, which is known as monitoring effect. On the other hand, criminals …

This paper reports on a new methodology to estimate the "cost of crime." We adapt the contingent valuation method used … estimates are between two and ten times higher than prior estimates of the cost of crime to victims and are thought to more … fully represent the true cost of crime to society. By focusing exclusively on costs to victims of crime and the criminal …

One creative method to harness private action to cost-effective crime control is the creation of business improvement … analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the leading scholarly commentaries on the crime drop during the 1990s have … sort have the potential to both reduce crime rates and reduce arrests and imprisonment. Well-designed regulations and …

programs can encourage effective private action.One creative method to harness private action to cost-effective crime control … analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the leading scholarly commentaries on the crime drop during the 1990s have … sort have the potential to both reduce crime rates and reduce arrests and imprisonment. Well-designed regulations and …

the result of increases in the cost of crime as a result of the strengthening of the country’s security forces, especially …This study considers the effect that judicial and police efficiency exercised on crime in 25 of the 33 political …-administrative divisions in Colombia during the period 2000-2011. Specifically, the study seeks to determine whether the reduction of crime was …