Although youth who commit serious violent crimes are small in number, they account for a disproportionate amount of juvenile crime. How then can we best intervene with this difficult—even dangerous—population? A major study, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and conducted by its Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders, sheds new light on promising...

How does the minimum wage affect crime rates? Empirical research suggests that increasing a worker’s wage can deter him from committing crimes. On the other hand, if that worker becomes displaced as a result of the minimum wage, he may be more likely to commit a crime. In this paper, I describe a frictional world in which a worker’s criminal actions are linked to his labor market outcomes. The ...

BACKGROUND This study examines the nature of disparities in cardiovascular risk by exploring chronic stressors and other cardiovascular risk factors on youth of African descent who are integrating into an industrialized society. METHODS Qualitative data on cardiovascular risk and acclimation to the dominant society were collected from three groups of key informants: (1) community leaders; (2)...

Abstract Objectives This article explores the merits of commercially-based survey data on crime through cross-validation with established metrics. Methods Using unpublished from 166 countries covering period between 2006 and 2019, describes geographical distribution across global regions trends over time three types common crime, homicide, organised crime. The then possible determinants distrib...

This meta-analysis examines the official recidivism effects of two types community sanctions in youth justice, namely service and behavioural intervention programmes. Two analyses were conducted: a comparison between custodial sanctions, versus dismissals. Following systematic literature search, data extraction analysis, mean effect sizes calculated utilizing (log) odds ratio as main measure. T...

This thesis addresses questions in the Economics of Crime regarding the effect of crime on GDP per capita and its growth rate, and criminal choices. The first part of the thesis presents evidence concerning the effect of crime on economic outcomes in Italy. Using an Instrumental Variables (IV) strategy and a system GMM approach, the empirical exercise identifies the effect of different crimes o...