S u m m a r y C alifornia's corrections realignment plan quickly and significantly reduced the state's prison population. The reduction, motivated by a federal mandate, was achieved by sentencing lower-level offenders to county jails rather than state prison and by giving counties, rather than the state, most of the responsibilities for parolees. Although county jails absorbed many of the offen...

This paper attempts to examine the linkages among inflation, unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia. The sample period covered annual data from 1970 to 2006. The Bartlett corrected trace test proposed by Johansen (2002) was employed as being appropriate for small sample study. The corrected trace test affirmed the existence of long run equilibrium relationship between crime rate and its deter...

In this paper, we look at the empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. As with Lochner and Moretti’s (2004) US work, we recognise explicitly the need to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the effect of education on participation in criminal activity using changes in compulsory school lea...

Analyzing county-level data for the entire United States from 1977 to 2000, we find annual reductions in murder rates between 1.5% and 2.3% for each additional year that a right-to-carry law is in effect. For the first five years that such a law is in effect, the total benefit from reduced crimes usually ranges between approximately $2 billion and $3 billion per year. Ayres and Donohue have sim...

Concepts deriving from criminology, housing policy, and environmental psychology are integrated to test two ways that housing conditions could relate to crime in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City. For existing housing, we use a model to test whether housing incivilities, such as litter and unkempt lawns, are associated with later crime. For new housing, we test whether a new subdi...

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs–crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs–crime channel within a Becker–Ehrlich model of crime sup...

Within the field of criminology, one of the main research interests is the analysis of the displacement of crime. Typical questions that are important in understanding the displacement of crime are: When do hot spots of high crime rates emerge? Where do they emerge? And, perhaps most importantly, how can they be prevented? In this paper, an agent-based simulation model of crime displacement is ...