The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy’s local labor … markets and analyzes the short-term response of crime to the severe slump of 2007-2009. It shows that the downturn led to a …-worker contractual arrangements) had a role in slowing down the effect of the economy on crime; ii) the link between the downturn and …

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. …

input. However, while most issues can be dealt with at a bilateral level, security is one specific area that necessarily … – of from the wider international community. This paper explores the various dimensions of the security debate, examining …, which will require a rather more comprehensive approach to security than has hitherto been the case. In ensuring the island …

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 …

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 …

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