theory as a way to develop new perspectives about crime and its causes. A basic assumption is that the criminal is a rational …Crime is frightening. It breeds emotional responses which can lead to counterproductive governmental policy. To allow a …

juvenile crime increases when the age of criminal majority is increased. As predicted by dynamic models of crime, these effects … are driven by age groups well below the age of criminal majority. Further, the increase is driven by crime categories that … paper focuses on crime as a dynamic process, and shows that offenders can respond in anticipation of increases in criminal …

; delinquency decision ; key group ; NP-hard problem ; crime policies …