Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

This paper isolates the causal effect of policing on group violence, using unique panel data on self-reported crime by …

-best) policy. …

highly dependent on the country’s institutional quality. The positive effect of public attention on policy implementation is …

highly dependent on the country's institutional quality. The positive effect of public attention on policy implementation is …