prolonged and more general education lead to a reduction in property crime, but no significant decrease in violent crime. The … opportunities and/or inclinations to commit crime. …

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 …

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 …

We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities … move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … investigate whether the depenalization policy impacts the level and composition of crime, using administrative records on criminal …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both Ordinary Least Squares and a fixed effect … result, there is a higher relative incidence of domestic assaults rather than an overall increase in crime. The results are …