Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in …

suggestive evidence that lower handgun sales primarily reduced impulsive assaults and domestic violence. …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

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 …

members of law or other social science departments. Furthermore, using a panel data set of U.S. states, we show how easy it is …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on … potential offenders and victims, and a direct effect on sex crime propensity. To investigate the importance of these mechanisms …