This review analyses the time–series evidence of the effects of changing income inequality
on crime for a number of countries and types of crime. 17 papers analysing this relationship …

This review analyses the time-series evidence of the effects of changing income inequality
on crime for a number of countries and types of crime. 17 papers analysing this relationship …

The question of what is the effect of inequality on crime has been a matter of interest among
many researchers and policy analysts. While most of the literature on this topic finds a …

The economics literature generally supports a positive theoretical link between income
inequality and crime. However, despite this consensus, empirical evidence has struggled to …

While previous synthesis research studies have found income inequality to be the most
consistent predictor of crime at the cross-national level, recent comparative research studies …

In this article we take an empirical cross-country perspective to investigate the robustness
and causality of the link between income inequality and crime rates. First, we study the …

The goal of this thesis is to study the determinants of income inequality and to establish the
relationship between income inequality and crime (which in this dissertation is limited to …

Although the theoretical link between income inequality, poverty, and violent crime has a
long and well-established history, the empirical evidence to date can best be described as …

This paper analyzes measurement errors in crime data to see how they impact econometric
estimates, particularly of the key relationship between inequality and crime. Criminal …

We investigate the robustness and causality of the link between income inequality and
violent crime across countries. First, we study the correlation between the Gini index and …