Robbing banks: Crime does pay - but not very much

Abstract

Robbing a bank is the staple crime of thrillers, movies and newspapers. But, say Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert Witt, bank robbery is not all it is cracked up to be. With access to a unique data set, they give us the low-down on the economics of the bank heist. © 2012 The Royal Statistical Society.