The chapter analyses the impact of economic and financial crimes, such as money laundering, corruption, tax evasion, informal employment/entrepreneurship, cybercrime, illicit financial flows, on the state budget
The suggestion of a link between these phenomena has often been made, but little systematic research has been conducted to determine if there is indeed a crime-oil development nexus. Limited previous research has focused primarily on the issue of "boom and bust" cycles on some forms of deviant...
Finally, when we exploit individual panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to isolate workers who are bound by minimum wage increases, these supplemental analyses detect some evidence of minimum wage-induced increases in property crime among affected young adults. In summary, ...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by “street-level bureaucrats” - a term coined by Michael Lipsky to explain the public servants who distribute public benefits and sanctions using professional discretion in interactions with the public - has been expanding. By adopting the structure set fort...
On the other hand, I will be taking an emic approach into Fiji’s teenagers today. As an insider into this culture, I will be able to analyze the impact of the introduction of television to a rural community in Western Fiji and how issue has lead to a rapid social and economic change...
They lead to higher levels of theft in a given state, which serves as a source of funds to the cartels to purchase drugs they sell and to purchase services of enforcement gangs that carry out the orders of the cartels. Individual state economic growth and development can be significantly ...
When a family member spends time in jail many lose family and social connections. Once a person is a convicted felon no matter the charge, employers are not going to hire somebody with that kind of background. This hurts both the individual and the economy because that person could be perfe...
Inadequate enforcement of traffic laws thus plays a central role, and in terms of law enforcement, the economics of crime literature generally highlights the role of both the probability of the penalty and its severity. Understanding whether agents react more strongly to the former or to the latte...
Don Sherman Grant I1 is an Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. His current research focuses on the effects of corporate restructuring on local economic development, the class determinants of crime, environmental ethics, and the organizational correlates on industrial toxic emi...
of heterogeneous effects within the crime reducing effects of education. Additionally, recent work in the U.S. by the Council of Economic Advisers (2016) concludes that, among other factors, investing in education is more cost-effective in reducing crime than incarceration. From a policy ...