This paper extends the Pissarides (2000) model of the labor market to include crime and punishment à la Becker (1968). The model is used to study, analytically and quantitatively, the effects of various labor market and crime policies. For instance, a more generous unemployment insurance system reduces the crime rate of the unemployed but its effect on the crime rate of the employed depends on ...

Empirical evidence about the relationship between legal gambling and crime is mixed; some studies find that legalized gambling increases crime and others find no relationship between legalized gambling and crime, controlling for other factors like hotels. We develop a utility maximizing model of time spent in legal work, crime, and leisure and use this model to understand the relationship betwe...

Law enforcement agencies use various crime analysis tools to discover crimes. However, a big volume of crime data has made the process of analyzing crimes difficult. Previously proposed methods only consider improving the productivity of the detectives and other law enforcement agencies. In this paper, we argue that the crime analysis methods should be also useful for citizen, and propose a use...

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This paper studies the individual-level relationship between immigration and property crime in England and Wales using crime self-reports from the Crime and Justice Survey. Models that account for underreporting are used, since this is a major concern in crime self-reports. The results indicate that the reported crime is substantially underreported, but if anything, immigrants are less likely t...

C hapter 2 presents the theoretical foundation for understanding how crime and disorder occur; it also details ways to reduce opportunities and prevent problematic activity, based on theory. This chapter links these theoretical concepts with crime reduction practice by police. As discussed in Chapter 1, the primary purpose of crime analysis is to assist police; the focus of this chapter is on “...

The fact that the volume of crime is related to the size of a jurisdiction’s population has been well established. The relationship between crime rate and population size, however, is less clear. Crime rate presents crime on a per capita basis, and is intended to adjust for population size so that comparisons can be made. In this article, the author first establishes the statistical relationshi...

Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce. This paper draws on data from a prospective cohort study (the Whitehall II study) to show a strong statistical effect of mental health and physical functioning on worry about crime. Combining with e...

In recent decades, crime levels have given increasing cause for alarm, bringing material and immaterial consequences that have still to be properly understood. Anti-crime strategies urgently need to be implemented in order to promote safe communities and contribute to their sustainable development. Crime needs to be taken into account during the planning process, as valuable components can be p...