preventing crime. Under a law adopted in the Netherlands in 2001, prolific offenders could be sentenced to a prison term that was …Making the length of a prison sentence conditional on an individual’s offense history is shown to be a powerful way of … reduced theft rates. The size of the crime-reducing effect is found to be subject to sharply diminishing returns. …

single small crime can be low, such crimes generate substantial losses in the aggregate. In this paper we measure perceptions … of incorrect behavior or ‘small crime’, based on a questionnaire administered to a large representative sample from the … crimes. We present short questions that only state the nature of the small crime, as well as vignette questions, describing …

We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new … neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …

the racial mix of the population.We define the fair jail rate to be when the racial composition of the jail population is … identical to the racial composition of the criminal population.We study the long-term racial composition of the jail population … "imperfect recall" case shows, consistent with empirical findings, that the long term racial jail rate is always greater than the …