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Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....
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Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …
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administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …
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We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context …
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legal systems and committed to criminal justice (prosecution policy). Preventive efforts against the crime (prevention …
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legal systems and committed to criminal justice (prosecution policy). Preventive efforts against the crime (prevention …
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Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …
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Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
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increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …
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This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche … Kriminalstatistik - PKS) are treated so that they integrate dark figures (unreported crime) of crime types along with their specific … treatment methods: First, there is a north- south divide, with the northern regions experiencing a far higher risk of crime …
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