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. …

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 …

In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other workin this … that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on aquasiexperimental setting … induced by the introduction of the Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) in the UK in October1996. We look at crime rates in areas more …

multiple effects of football matches on crime. …

and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …

Francesca Cornaglia and Andrew Leigh measure the impact of crime - and media reporting of crime - on the mental …

nine London teams linked to detailed recorded crime data at the area level to empirically estimate these different effects …. My findings show that only property crime significantly increases in the communities hosting football matches but that … that the away game attendance effect on crime is due to voluntary incapacitation of potential offenders. I argue that the …

There has been a substantial fall in rates of property theft and violent crime in the UK. The author surveys a series …

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 …