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to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
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In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse … this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … burglary incidents. We first consider a panel of consumer goods covering the majority of market goods stolen in the crime …
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Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
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In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention the Street Crime Initiative that was introduced in England and … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …
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In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …
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and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …
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spike up in Islamophobic hate crimes and incidents when an attack occurs. In subsequent days, hate crime is amplified by … real-time media. It subsequently attenuates, but hate crime incidence cumulates to higher levels than prior to the series … take place, local Muslim populations face a media magnified likelihood of hate crime victimization following international …
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leaving age. This paper studies how crime reductions occurred in a sequence of state-level dropout age reforms enacted between … 1980 and 2010 in the United States. These reforms changed the shape of crime-age profiles, reflecting both a temporary … incapacitation effect and a more sustained, longer run crime reducing effect. In contrast to the previous research looking at earlier …
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