We examine the relationship between the incidence of workplace deviance (on-the-job crime) and the business cycle. A …

of the crime distribution in England and Wales over the period 1992-2007. By using data from 43 police force areas, we … examine how the effect of real earnings, unemployment, crime detection rate, income inequality and proportion of young people … varies across high and low crime areas. Six crime categories are examined - burglarly, theft and handling, fraud and forgery …

and Wales over the period 1992-2008. Our list of potential determinants includes two law enforcement variables, crime … crimes. However, socio-economic variables play a limited role in explaining different crime types. …

We provide the first detailed econometric analysis of the impact of sentencing on various types of acquisitive crime … (theft, burglary, fraud and robbery) in England and Wales. We examine (a) whether sentencing reduces crime and (b) whether … is significant and negatively affects all crime types while the impact of sentences is negative and significant for …

crime-specific detection rate and prison population, and various socio-economic variables such as unemployment rate, real … the endogeneity of several regressors. There is a significant positive effect of own-lagged crime rate. The own …-lagged effect is stronger for property crime, on an average, than violent crime. We find that, on an average, higher detection rate …