We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important …

's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …

to lead a life of crime than those entering a buoyant labour market. Thus crime scars from higher entry level …

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

This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets … are endogenously determined. We show that in bigger cities there is relatively more crime, a standard stylized fact of … costs (or a better access to jobs) decreases crime while, in the long run with free mobility, the effect is ambiguous …

-scale public opinion and crime victimization survey--the first of its kind in India. The results illustrate that two of the reform … interventions, the freeze on transfers and the training, improved police effectiveness and public and crime victims’ satisfaction …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount. Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …

once removed generates the highest reduction in total crime in the network. We generalize the intercentrality measure …

player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We also show …