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Broken windows policing and crime: evidence from 80 Colombian cities
Mejía, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobón, Santiago; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264884
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Pains, guns and moves : the effect of the US opioid epidemic on Mexican migration
Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; Masera, Federico - 2020
. Violence and conflicts increased in Mexican municipalities suitable for opium production, as they became highly valuable to drug … cartels. People migrated out of these municipalities to escape this violence, mostly to areas close to the US border and into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224378
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Coping with extortion : on violence, parasites, and water infrastructures in Buenaventura, Colombia
Fernández Lozano, Felipe - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 4 (2022) 3, pp. 296-309
impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013542956
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Concealed costs : illicit economies and the erosion of the local tax base in Colombia
Justino, Patricia; Tobón, Santiago; Vanegas-Arias, Martín - 2024
violence and illicit economic activities. We study four factors that the literature has identified as key determinants of a … country's local fiscal capacity: early land conflicts; historical political violence; recent political violence; and the … highlights suggestive research avenues regarding the relationship between violence, illicit economies, and state capacity. …
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet M. (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304677
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317760
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Unemployment and ginag crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003465761
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Priks, Mikael (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471375
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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578420
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Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime
Cunningham, A. Scott; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, … - 2011
, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. -- Video Games ; Violence ; Crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159870