After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a … authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … increases in crime in particular with respect to drug offenses and fare-dodging. Our analysis further suggests that counties …

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …. -- Econometrics of crime ; evaluation of policy reforms ; panel econometrics …

prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence suggests that public prosecutors and their influence on the probability of … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …

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 inflows drives the increase in hate crime, but …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …