The Times:
Bigger rewards and less risk are making crime more attractive
30 September 2017
One of the leading authorities on the subject today is Stephen Machin, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He has analysed London Metropolitan police data over the decade to 2012 and scraped drug marketplaces on the dark web to show that criminals not only act rationally but operate sophisticated economic models, too…. “People with something to lose are less likely to view criminal participation as attractive, and crime reduction can therefore be achieved by influencing life opportunities,” Olivier Marie, Mr Machin’s colleague at the LSE, wrote recently.
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The Australian
Bigger rewards and less risk for crime
One of the leading authorities on the subject today is Stephen Machin, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He has analysed London Metropolitan police data over the decade to 2012 and scraped drug marketplaces on the dark web to show that criminals not only act rationally but operate sophisticated economic models, too.
The Times (Irish edition)
Bigger rewards and less risk are making crime more attractive