We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …

This paper studies the effects of mothers' long-term pre-conception exposure to local violence on birth outcomes. Using … local violence prior to conception has detrimental effects on infant health at birth. The results suggest that loss of women …, highlighting intergenerational consequences of exposure to local violence. Our findings shed light on the welfare implications of …

affecting the probability they return to prison. Using administrative prison release records from nearly six million offenders … observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes … are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability …

affects extortion in areas where gangs previously competed. While the non-aggression pact led to a large reduction in violence …

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates … specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our results reveal that, consistent with a theory in which height can be a source of … labor market disadvantage, criminals in early America were shorter than the average American, and individual crime hazards …

of engaging in crime and therefore, a priori drawing the conclusion that criminal activity cannot be altered by …

variation in the threat of crime within small homogenous groupings of homes, and we use the timing of sex offenders' arrivals to … offenders or view living near an offender as having costs exclusive of crime risk … individuals value living in close proximity to a convicted criminal. We use the exact location of sex offenders to exploit …

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 …

-Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reports, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study is the first to … estimate the effect of BTB laws on crime. We find some evidence that BTB laws are associated with an increase in property crime …-induced increases in crime for non-Hispanic whites and women. Finally, we find that BTB laws are associated with a reduction in property …