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. 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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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...
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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,...
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, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. -- Video Games ; Violence ; Crime …
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-crime relationship. -- gun control ; violence ; informal employment ; cross-border spillover ; cartels …
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"Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze … whether media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from … attendance appears to reduce alcohol consumption. Like the laboratory experiments, we find indirect evidence that movie violence …
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