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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence : Learning About the Match

Anderberg, Dan - 2018

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2006

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...

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Unemployment and Gang Crime : Could Prosperity Backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

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Optimal Law Enforcement with Sophisticated and Naive Offenders

Buechel, Berno - 2018

Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...

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Police and Crime : Further Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Cardoso, Vicente - 2018

The paper investigates the effect of police presence on homicides at the municipality level in Brazil during the January 2010 to December 2014 period. For this purpose, occasional and illegal police strikes are considered as relevant shocks in a quasi-natural experiment. After controlling for...

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Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2015

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...

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When and How the Punishment Must Fit the Crime

Mailath, George J.; Nocke, Volker; White, Lucy - 2021

In repeated normal-form (simultaneous-move) games, simple penal codes (Abreu, 1986, 1988) permit an elegant characterization of the set of subgame-perfect outcomes. We show that the logic of simple penal codes fails in repeated extensive-form games. By means of examples, we identify two types of...

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Private Protection Against Crime When Property Value is Private Information

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2021

This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private information. Within a framework in which potential criminals can choose between various crime opportunities, we establish that decentralized decision-making by potential victims may...

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