The heavy police presence at football matches in England has reduced hooliganism in the stadium - but at what cost in … multiple effects of football matches on crime. …

police displacement effect of hosting a match increases property crime by 7 percentage point for every extra 10 …) self incapacitation, and (iii) police displacement. In this paper I exploit information on football (soccer) matches for … nine London teams linked to detailed recorded crime data at the area level to empirically estimate these different effects …

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

crime has continued to fall. A key question for the next Parliament is whether further real-terms reductions in police … police workforce, and factors that may have led to the continued fall in reported crime. …The coalition government's austerity programme has resulted in some sizeable reductions in the police workforce, yet …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … identifies a causal impact of police on crime. Implementing an instrumental variable approach shows an elasticity of crime with … respect to police approximately -0.3, so that a 10 percent increase in police activity reduces crime by around 3 percent. …

productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is …-level characteristics and the endogeneity of IT use. IT investments do, however, appear to improve police productivity when complemented …

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 …

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

We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration … immigration on crime from our spatial econometric analysis and also present evidence from unique data on arrests of natives and …