The relationship between economic inequality and violent crime is usually equated with rational choice or strain theory, although adjudicating between these two distinct perspectives is exceedingly burdensome because their respective predictions are analogous. Multilevel data for 66 cities...

The extant literature on marginal deterrence supports the notion that individuals maintain a dynamic decision-making process that yields several ranked outcomes after weighing the risks and rewards. In this article, we conduct a novel large-scale empirical analysis of the marginal deterrence...

The Asset Recovery Handbook: A Guide for Practitioners was first published in 2011 by the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, a joint initiative of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and the World Bank focused on encouraging and facilitating a more systematic and timely return of stolen...

How long survives perception of change after evaporation of the actual change? I investigate the effect of daylight on crime and fear of crime. Forty years of reforms shifted the boundaries between Russian eleven time zones. I find that a permanent switch to a later sunset leads to a two year...

How long survives perception of change after evaporation of the actual change? I investigate the effect of daylight on crime and fear of crime. Forty years of reforms shifted the boundaries between Russian eleven time zones. I find that a permanent switch to a later sunset leads to a two year...

An anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising began in northern China in 1899, dubbed the “Boxer Rebellion” by the foreign powers that subsequently invaded China. In the courseof events, troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance began to arrive in Beijing in August 1900 and occupied the city. During...

Having studied sociality among robbers, mainly the pioneers of the PCC [Primeiro Comando da Capital, or First Command of the Capital], in Brazil, I argue individual entrepreneurship, contrary to popular belief, provides the foundation for major robberies of banks and other financial institutions...

Having studied sociality among robbers, mainly the pioneers of the PCC [Primeiro Comando da Capital, or First Command of the Capital], in Brazil, I argue individual entrepreneurship, contrary to popular belief, provides the foundation for major robberies of banks and other financial institutions...

Crime and the durability of goods are strongly connected issues. However, surprisingly, they have been studied separately. This paper explores the relationship between the production of durable goods and crime from a theoretical perspective and draws important conclusions for both topics. Crime...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Methodology -- How to Use the Handbook -- References -- 1. Overview of the Asset Recovery Process -- 1.1 Introductory Remarks -- 1.2 General Process for Asset Recovery -- 1.3 Legal Avenues for...

Poor performance of the electricity sector remains a drag to economic efficiency and a bottleneck to economic activity in many low-income countries. This paper proposes a number of models that account for different equilibria (some better, some worse) of the electricity sector. They show how...

We develop a theoretical model to study how changes in the durability of the goods affects prices of stolen goods, the incentives to steal and the equilibrium crime rate. When studying the production of durable goods, we find that the presence of crime affects consumer and producer surplus and...

Crime and the durability of goods are strongly connected issues. However, surprisingly, they have been studied separately. This paper explores the relationship between the production of durable goods and crime from a theoretical perspective and draws important conclusions for both topics. Crime...

Poor performance of the electricity sector remains a drag to economic efficiency and a bottleneck to economic activity in many low-income countries. This paper proposes a number of models that account for different equilibria (some better, some worse) of the electricity sector. They show how...

The author put in discussion the problem that might arise in connection with the punishment prescribed by law for the criminal attempt to commit the offence of robbery (art. 222 of c. pen in force) which resulted in the death of the victim, unless we find out in front of the disparities between...

Robbery falls in the category of crimes against property, and it comprises: theft, piracy, trust abuse, unauthorized management, embezzlement, fraud, voluntary waste, etc., although its complex content includes, apart from the act of the theft itself, acts of violence, threat or other forms of...

The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The paper also presents the framework, policy options, and strategies that the Government of India has...

As far as robbery is concerned, the lawmaker considers utterly important social values– such as life, bodily integrity and health – as being adjacent to social patrimonial relations, which make up the main object of the deed. However, it remains to be seen whether this hierarchy of social...

All human societies have thoroughly disapproved of robbery as a deed through which a person appropriates a good belonging to somebody else. In various law systems, this deed has been vehemently incriminated, and when the robber used violence to accomplish his action the crime was called robbery...