Studies in the economics of crime literature have reached mixed conclusions on the deterrence hypothesis. One … crime. This article applies univariate unit root tests to crime series for the United Kingdom and United States and panel … unit roots to crime rates for a panel of G7 countries to examine whether there is a natural rate of crime. Our main finding …

intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …

Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the … link between crime and growth based on the theory of rational choice and empirical data. Exogenous and endogenous growth …