preventing crime. Under a law adopted in the Netherlands in 2001, prolific offenders could be sentenced to a prison term that was … reduced theft rates. The size of the crime-reducing effect is found to be subject to sharply diminishing returns. …

We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new … neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …

that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social …