...Simplice Asongu; Oasis Kodila-Tedika Purpose – Crimes and conflicts are seriously undermining African development. The purpose of this paper is to assess the best governance tools in the fight against the scourges. Design/methodology/approach – The authors assess a sample of 38 African...

..., neutral, or anti‐serious theft. The regression analysis is used to explore the determinants of punishment per unit of the crime (i.e. amount stolen). Findings The results strongly support the claim that disproportionate penalty is assigned to petty thefts committed mostly by the poor and non‐elites...

...Ferda Halicioglu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study empirically the dynamics of crime in Turkey at aggregate and disaggregate levels and provide empirical evidence of temporal causality between crime, health, income, divorce, urbanization and security expenditures. Design/methodology...

...Firouz Fallahi; Hamed Pourtaghi; Gabriel Rodríguez Purpose The paper aims to study the effect of the unemployment rate and its volatility on crime in the USA. It proposes that not only the unemployment rate, but also its volatility affect the crime. Design/methodology/approach First...

...Wisdom Akpalu Purpose The formal model of economics of crime developed by Becker is based on the assumption that a miscreant knows with certainty the benefit that accrues to a criminal activity. The purpose of this paper is to relax this assumption and establish a link between technical efficiency...

...Chor Foon Tang Purpose The main purpose of this study is to examine the dynamic relationship between tourist arrivals, inflation, unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia. This study covered the annual data from 1970 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach The multivariate Johansen‐Juselius...

... in all cases runs from economic conditions to crime rates and not vice versa. In the long‐run, strong economic performances have a positive impact on murder, rape, assault, daylight burglary, and motorcycle theft, while on the other hand, economic conditions have negative impact on armed robbery...

...Paul Ponsaers; Joanna Shapland; Colin Williams; Hans Nelen Purpose The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the Dutch property market from the angle of crime‐inducing conditions and circumstances. Design/methodology/approach The perspective adopted is in line with recent developments...

...Paul Ponsaers; Joanna Shapland; Colin Williams; Tom Vander Beken; Stijn Van Daele Purpose The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of vulnerability studies of economic activities to study the relationship between organised crime and the economy and illustrate it by examples taken from...

... that the practices that can be observed fit into the category of organised crime because of the country's economic framework. The paper also explores how the practices are partially a legacy of Soviet economic processes. Design/methodology/approach A total of 700 household surveys were completed in three cities...

... with organised crime and the conditions under which these may be facilitated, with reference to the papers in this double special issue. Design/methodology/approach The papers in this issue are deliberately from different methodological perspectives, in order to illustrate the need for multidisciplinarity...

... The paper contains an analysis of 12 police files on the use of hawala banks by perpetrators of crime. The data gathered from these cases are compared to what has been reported on hawala banking in the existing literature. Findings The literature emphasises the importance of trust...

...Paul Ponsaers; Joanna Shapland; Colin Williams; Bojan Dobovšek Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight both the ways in which transnational organized crime has developed and will develop, and also some problems in relation to financing economic organized crime networks. These are related...