are more punitive for both black and white defendants. By contrast, punishment norms are unrelated to local crime rates …

Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more …

This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment … landscape - street lighting - and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a … reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a …

of public goods to minority households. Recent reductions in crime have "unlocked" $5 billion in property value in …

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