of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …

agencies between 1996 and 2015, we implement a difference-in-difference approach in which police departments (which were … rights led to a substantial increase in violent incidents of misconduct among SOs, relative to police departments. The effect …

The paper investigates the effect of police presence on homicides at the municipality level in Brazil during the … January 2010 to December 2014 period. For this purpose, occasional and illegal police strikes are considered as relevant … municipalities, it is possible to identify a sizeable effect accruing from police strikes on the occurrence of homicides. Despite a …