crime has continued to fall. A key question for the next Parliament is whether further real-terms reductions in police … budgets can occur without more deleterious effects on crime. This paper explores the evidence on the trends in crime and the … police workforce, and factors that may have led to the continued fall in reported crime. …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

Olivier Marie explains the value of an economic approach to the analysis, design and evaluation of crime …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

Olivier Marie explains the value of an economic approach to the analysis, design and evaluation of crime …

This paper estimates the impact of recorded domestic property crime on property prices in the London area. Crimes in … property. One explanation we offer here is that vandalism, graffiti and other forms of criminal damage motivate fear of crime …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …