We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We … differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a … decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental …

focus on crime perceptions and, combining channel-specific viewership and content data, we show that the reduced exposure to … channels characterized by high levels of crime reporting decreases individual concerns about crime. The effect is driven by … individuals aged 50 and over, who turn out to be more exposed to television while using other sources of information less …

It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit … had a negative and significant effect on the overall crime rate as well as burglary, assault, and larceny. According to …

In this article we study the effects of permanent school closures on crime. We leverage the closure of over 300 schools … matched sample. We find that neighbourhoods affected by school closures experience a reduction in crime of about 9% of a … property crimes. We provide evidence on several mechanisms explaining the negative crime effect, such as changes in …

This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … form estimates or traditional partial equilibrium, static models of crime. Equilibrium effects can be particularly relevant …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in … Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated … lasting crime reducing effect of workfare policy. …

We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … implementation of the reform. We find that the reform reduced crime among teenage boys from economically disadvantaged families …. Stronger reform effects on weekday versus weekend crime, reduced school dropout, and favorable long-run outcomes in terms of …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …