The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … Becker-Ehrlich model of crime supply. We analyse three different channels from drug abuse to crime: system-related, economic …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … results underscore the severe harm that alcohol can cause and point towards a role for policy measures that target the …

this hypothesis from the case of El Salvador. Regarding the dependent variable, the policy experiment of a truce between …-existing levels of violent crime. The cross-sectional evidence is backed by panel data analysis dating back to 1999. The annual inflow …-existing crime at destination, whereas deportations of non-convicts did not have the same effect. These finding are in line with …

In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in … effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share of the foreign-born population on anti-foreigner hate crime. Our … county-level analysis shows that not simply the size of regional asylum seeker infl ows drives the increase in hate crime …

This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve …

Recent evidence suggests a positive impact of air pollution on crime in large cities. We provide first evidence on the … levels. We use a unique combination of daily crime data with weather and emission records for the states of Baden … crime of 4.6%. …

Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the … based on a binding dispersal policy, yet we show that systematic regional sorting remains. Our empirical approach examines … spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental …