these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … increase in the number of refugees leads to more crime. We estimate that the influx of refugees between 2012 and 2016 generated … crime. We also highlight the pitfalls of employing incorrect empirical procedures and using poor proxies of criminal …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …

police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

judicial administration of organized crime firms through the imposition of external managers in order to remove the connection …, suggesting that the burden the organized crime firms impose on other firms is very large. Firms' performance and turnover … increases by 2.2 and 0.7 percent, respectively, in the first four years after an organized crime firm enters the status of …

DCM induced an 11 percent reduction in criminal incidents involving arrestees ages 19 to 25, driven by property crime … care, increased educational attainment, and increases in parent-adult child cohabitation may explain these crime declines … crime reduction …