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Historical slavery predicts contemporary violent crime

Gouda, Moamen; Rigterink, Anouk S. - 2024

evidence suggests that slavery perpetuated violence, there has been no large-N study supporting this claim. Using county …’s political attitudes mediate the effect on interracial violence. …

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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 …

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An economic analysis of alcohol, drugs, and violent crime in the national crime victimization survey

Markowitz, Sara - 2000

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Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime

Cunningham, Scott - 2011

Psychological studies invariably find a positive relationship between video game play and aggression. However, these studies cannot account for either aggressive effects of alternative activities video game playing substitutes for or the possible selection of relatively violent people into...

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Cross-Border Spillover : U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

Dube, Arindrajit - 2013

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...

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Broadband Internet : An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

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Broadband Internet : An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

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Broadband Internet : An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000--2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068216

Hot and Bothered : The Impact of Weather Shocks on Violent, Property, and Sex Crimes in Jamaica

Wright, Nicholas; Stewart, Aubrey - 2023

Developing countries face the largest exposure to the negative effects of climate change. However, as temperature and rainfall patterns change, we have a limited understanding of their impact on these countries and the mitigation strategies that may be most appropriate. In this paper, we utilize...

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An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

Markowitz, Sara - 2021

incidence of criminal violence in a nationally representative sample of individuals in the United States. The positive … association between substance use and violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol … increases in substance prices will directly decrease the incidence of criminal violence. Violence is measured by assault, rape …

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