Why crime rates are falling throughout the Western world

M Tonry - Crime and justice, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Crime rates have moved in parallel in Western societies since the late Middle Ages.
Homicide rates declined from 20 to 100 per 100,000 population in western Europe to one …

The changing returns to crime: Do criminals respond to prices?

M Draca, T Koutmeridis, S Machin - The Review of Economic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
To what extent does crime follow the pattern of potential gains to illegal activity? This article
presents evidence on how criminals respond to this key incentive by reporting crime–price …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the impact of state government spending and the economy on crime rates

UN Akpom, AD Doss - Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution, 2018 - academicjournals.org
The determinants of crime have been an area of numerous studies over time. In spite of this
volume of work, interest in the causes of crime continues to persist. This paper investigates …

[HTML][HTML] Factores socioeconómicos asociados con la mortalidad por homicidios en Colombia, 2000-2014

CA Dávila, AM Pardo-Montaño - Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2019 - SciELO Public Health
El objetivo fue analizar la tendencia, impacto en la esperanza de vida y efecto de los
principales factores socioeconómicos asociados con la mortalidad por homicidios en …

Türkiye'de Bölgesel İşsizlik ve Suç Türleri İlişkisi: Panel Veri Yaklaşımı.

M Cinar, C Tas - Business & Economics Research Journal, 2022 - ceeol.com
Bu çalışmada, Türkiye'nin 26 bölgesi için 2009-2019 dönemi verileri kullanılarak işsizlik ile
suç türleri arasındaki ilişki panel veri yaklaşımıyla incelenmiştir. Ayrıca suç modeli mala karşı …

Unemployment and property crime: evidence from Croatia

V Recher - Crime, Law and Social Change, 2020 - Springer
This paper studies the effect of unemployment on property crime in Croatia. The workhorse
model of economics of crime is estimated on yearly panel data at the county level over the …

Commuting for crime

T Kirchmaier, M Langella, A Manning - The Economic Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
People care about crime, with the spatial distribution of both actual and perceived crime
affecting the local amenities from living in different areas and residential decisions. The …

Unemployment and crime in developing countries: a meta-analysis in Iran

SA Mir Mohamad Tabar, M Noghani - Crime, Law and Social Change, 2019 - Springer
This study investigates the relationship between crime and unemployment based on
previous researches in Iran. It summarizes, using meta-analysis techniques, results from 20 …

[PDF][PDF] Five Years into the Great Recession

R Ruddell, NA Jones - … , SK, Collaborative Centre for Justice and …, 2014 - justiceandsafety.ca
Acknowledgments: This study was funded by the “F” Division, Royal Canadian Mounted
Police and the authors gratefully acknowledge their support for policing research. We also …

Persistent commodity shocks and transitory crime effects

A Corvalan, M Pazzona - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper studies the dynamic response of crime to a positive income shock. We estimate
the short-and medium-run effects that an increase in copper price had on the local economy …