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 …

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

Several theories have been offered to explain the recent declines in violent crime rates in the United States. We …

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 …

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 …

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context. …

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 particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds …

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