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 …

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 …

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

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

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 …

can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any … frequency of violation at equilibrium. This result is misleading: payoffs are not independent and the crime game can not be … crime of tax evasion, where the dishonest taxpayers are rational agents, motivated by the comparison of payoffs, considering …

crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury …

assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a … decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest. …