changes in troop levels on violent crime in El Paso County, where Fort Carson is located. Our results suggest that never … relationship between the number of previously deployed units and violent crime are generally small and statistically insignificant …. We conclude that soldiers returning from combat do not represent a special threat to public safety. …

criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group property crime is reduced for up to five …

service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust … veteran status, these estimates imply that military service increases the probability of incarceration for a violent crime by …

these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and …

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 …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

with an increase in the fear of crime, the latter being consistently and positively correlated with the natives … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations. Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its … between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …