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January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislationon reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In …
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We analyze the illicit drug usage by inhabitants and visitors of European cities. Our statistical analyses are by means of linear mixed models. The data on illicit drug usage of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and cannabis are collected through wastewater samples from the inlet...
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This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
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European crime drop. This time-varying effect can be captured by the stochastic trend and can be interpreted as the "potential …" European crime drop. Due to the flexibility of our modeling framework, it is not needed to make the existence of the crime drop … of estimating country-specific loadings for the cross-national crime drop. To have an equivocal measure of crime over the …
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