Crime Economics And COVID-19. A Literature Review Economics Of Crime And COVID-19. A Literature Review

Abstract

The research addresses the issue of the relationship between the Economics of Crime and COVID-19 to elaborate a review of scientific literature using bibliometrics and analytical reading of the identified documents. The literature review results indicate that the topic has been addressed scientifically since 2020 but with greater dynamism since 2021,  maintaining a decreasing trend in 2022. The countries that contribute most theoretically to these topics are the United States, China, South Africa, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom; the research results are disseminated through original scientific articles and are mainly addressed from the social and environmental sciences and the digital economy. Finally, the economics of crime is identified as an emerging term based on the Neoinstitutionalist approach, having as a theoretical gap the scope of the traditional paradigm of political science and economics concerning political practices that are immersed in the framework of illegality and gives way to the emerging recognition of digital crime, narco populism, nightlife crime, illegal governance, health crime, and wildlife crime.