consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy … environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … enforcement in which courts constrain police with pro-defendant rules of criminal procedure. We also explore various other … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be … police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause …