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Scientific advancements in illegal drugs production and institutional responses : new psychoactive substances, self-harm, and violence inside prisons

D'Este, Rocco - 2022

seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate … in violence, self-harm, and suicides following the law. Collectively, the findings suggest unwarranted responses to …

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Universal credit and crime

D'Este, Rocco; Harvey, Alex - 2020

We evaluate the criminogenic effects of Universal Credit (UC), a monumental welfare reform designed to radically change the social security payment system in the United Kingdom. We exploit the UC rollout across constituencies using monthly data from 2010 to 2019 for England and Wales. We find UC...

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Jihadi attacks, media and local hate crime

Ivandic, Ria; Kirchmaier, Tom; Machin, Stephen - 2019

Empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks are studied. Based upon rich administrative data from Greater Manchester Police, event studies of ten terror attacks reveal an immediate big spike up in Islamophobic hate crimes and incidents when...

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Prices, policing and policy : the dynamics of crime booms and busts

Kirchmaier, Tom; Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo; Witt, … - 2018

In many historical episodes, the extent of criminal activity has displayed booms and busts. One very clear example is the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of metal thefts in the UK (and elsewhere) rose very sharply...

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Correcting racial injustice : forensic DNA technology and the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted

D'Este, Rocco; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023

We study the effects of laws streamlining access to post-conviction forensic DNA technology ("DNA laws"). We present a conceptual framework in which DNA laws' effects differ by race due to unequal access to non-DNA exoneration technologies. Consistent with the framework's predictions, we find...

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