Transnational crime constitutes a challenge for even the most advanced industrial nations. The Pacific Islands are culturally, educationally and socially diverse, geographically isolated and sparsely populated. There is a degree of heterogeneity in their respective levels of governance, corruption and law enforcement capacity. Economic weaknesses and their impact upon infrastructure, poverty an...

illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide and a serious hazard to humanity. the crimes associated with drug abuse include sale or possession of drugs; property crimes or prostitution to support drug habits; and violent crimes reflecting out-of-control behavior. in fact, an offender drug use is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and in 60 to 80 percent of child...

Switzerland is a three-tier federal state in which the single states, the cantons, enjoy great fiscal and political independence of the federal government. Furthermore, they differ considerably in sociodemographic structure, economic performance and political institutions. This makes this country a perfect laboratory for analyzing the causal relationship between potential economic determinants ...

cities, as the focused centers for human residence and settlement, are faced with various issues and problems. the high rate of crime and anomic behavior are characteristics of today’s major cities. fear of crime and anomic behavior is perceived as the most important reasons leading to a decline in the use of public spaces in cities by its residents. according to the mutual relation between env...

We explore the implications of endogenous credit market imperfections for the relationship between property crime and the process of economic development. In the initial stages of development, property crime rises as the opportunities to gain from illegal activities expand. In later stages, however, crime falls as capital market imperfections are overcome and legal activities become more pro ta...

As the numbers of women entering prison are increasing, more attention is being paid to the social circumstances of criminally involved women. Crime research has highlighted the familial roles of women more than men, focusing on the social and personal roles of women. This study examines a cross-sectional sample of 423 women in one state, assessing the associations of motherhood and intimate pa...

In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other work in this area. We look at changes in unemployment benefits and the imposition of benefit sanctions as a means of studying the way that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on a quasiexperimental setting induced by the introduction of the Jo...

In this paper, we pursue several strategies to identify the effect of unemployment rates on crime rates. Using a state-level panel for the period from 1971 to 1997, we estimate the effect of unemployment on the rates of seven felony offenses. We control extensively for state-level demographic and economic factors and estimate specifications that allow for state-specific time trends as well as s...