On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime

Florian Baumann () and Tim Friehe

Economics Bulletin, 2010, vol. 30, issue 3, 2371-2379

Abstract: This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises when individuals can commit crimes both individually and as part of a collective. Our result is based on an interdependence between detection probabilities where detection of an individual crime may result in the uncovering of the collective crime as well.

Keywords: Law enforcement; Crime; Collective Crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D0 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09-09
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