Fig. 2From: More crime in cities? On the scaling laws of crime and the inadequacy of per capita rankings—a cross-country studyThe population–crime relationship in 12 countries. Different criminology theories expect a relationship between population size and crime, predicting divergent population effects, such as linear and superlinear crime growth. Despite these theoretical disputes, however, crime rates per capita are broadly used by assuming that crime increases linearly with population sizeBack to article page