We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee … Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use … at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent, property and income-producing crime even after accounting for …

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 …

Traditional economic models of criminal behavior have straightforward predictions: raising the expected cost of crime … via apprehension probabilities or punishments decreases crime. I test the effect of harsher punishments on deterring …

The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and …

empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital …

crime rates, based on county-level panels of SUD treatment and crime data between 2001 and 2008 across the United States. To … address the potential endogeneity of the SUD treatment rate with respect to crime rate, we exploit the exogenous variation in … the SUD treatment rate at an average cost of $1.6 billion yields a crime reduction benefit of $2.5 billion to $4.8 billion …