We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new … neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …

This paper studies the causal effect of immigration on crime in the context of the massive influx of Syrians to Türkiye … crime at the prosecution stage, while no significant effects are detected for criminal court cases or convictions. Moreover …, natives experience increased victimization at the prosecution stage, while their involvement in criminal activities remains …

offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the … German survey data covering victimization experiences and criminal activities. Using recursive bivariate Probit modeling …, econometric results confirm that victimization depends on offending but not vice versa. Among the joint covariates of the …

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 …

A stylized fact in criminology holds that those who commit crimes are more likely to be victims of crime, and vice … victimization and offending. This analysis reveals that victim-offender overlap predominantly reflects population heterogeneity …

The objective of this paper is to measure the effect of wealth on property victimization risk. Using data from two … household victimization surveys conducted in São Paulo city and a measure of spending as a proxy for wealth observed by … criminals, the conclusion was reached that wealth level is one of the determinants of victimization risk. This risk increases …

We survey the literature on index crime, paying particular attention to spatial issues. We note the contrasting … punish them). The economics of crime has several points of contact with the economics of space, since the commission of an … index crime requires proximity between offenders and victims (or their property). We explore these linkages, as well as a …

U.S. law requires the Attorney General to collect data on hate crime victimization from states and municipalities, but … Google search rates for a racial epithet. As a benchmark of accurate hate crime data, it uses two alternative definitions of … which jurisdictions more effectively collect hate crime data: all states that were not part of the erstwhile Confederacy …