This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were … displaced to the surrounding area. -- surveillance cameras ; crime ; natural experiments …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …