Social Osmosis and Patterns of Crime
研究个体对惩罚概率的感知如何内生决定其犯罪选择，并分析犯罪率随时间演变、群体差异及经济特征的影响，有助于理解犯罪行为的动态模式。
Crime and the fear of crime have a deep negative impact on personal and societal well-being. Several observed patterns regarding criminal behavior, however, remain inadequately understood. In this analysis, individual's perceptions (concerning their probabilities of punishment) and choices are determined endogenously, while incorporating the information available to them and how this information is generated within the economy. The resulting dynamic relationships are then studied to examine how criminality might evolve over time, why crime participation rates might differ among societal groups even when they face similar economic fundamentals, and how the features of the economy might affect these rates. Copyright 1991 by University of Chicago Press.