analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the leading scholarly commentaries on the crime drop during the 1990s have … sort have the potential to both reduce crime rates and reduce arrests and imprisonment. Well-designed regulations and …One creative method to harness private action to cost-effective crime control is the creation of business improvement …

therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk … pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine … limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of …

Strong sentences are common "tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in … participating in crime may adjust. I use California's Three Strikes law to identify several effects of a large increase in the … combined with the high cost of violent crime relative to non-violent crime implies that Three Strikes may not be a cost …

Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The … statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely … uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across cities. The ups and downs of crime have a considerable effect on …

We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of … hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert … more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate crime. These differences also have previously unrecognized effects on …

to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …

. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …

Drugs and crime are known to be correlated, but the direction of causality and the magnitude of the relationship have …-site dataset of 3,500 inner-city drug users entering treatment. We analyze the change in crime and in drug use pre and post … find that treatment reduces drug use which, in turn, reduced drug decreases crime. Reduced drug use due to treatment is …