This is the fifth annual Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice. Scholars from around the world discuss recent work on issues involving the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. Presenting a series of studies that address pressing policy issues, long-standing problems in...

The pandemic, the crisis in many geopolitically diverse areas and the resulting migration flows, environmental and economic changes extend the range of social challenges to be faced by welfare states. We can observe several paths of change and adaptations that differ across countries,...