Any information on a toy economy with 3 types of agents in it
Becker has a very widely cited paper about crime that generally defines the literature, here.  

To examine your proposal, increases in productivity generally lead to higher wages in the legal sector, but could easily increase crime rates if they disproportionately increased the returns to crime. 

No agent modeling or network theory is needed for this to an accepted idea in the literature, but you're welcome to explore it if you think the consequences are somehow divergent from what I've outlined here! Furthermore, the actual task to -verify- his theory is very difficult. To search "the literature", I would search within the body of papers citing this particular Becker paper.