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 …

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 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 work in … way that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on a quasiexperimental setting … induced by the introduction of the Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) in the UK in October 1996. We look at crime rates in areas more …

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 …

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 … evidence of an average causal impact of immigration on crime, nor do we when we consider A8 and Non-A8 immigration separately … causal impact of immigration on crime from our spatial econometric analysis and also present evidence from unique data on …

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 …