Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be …

demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can undermine current institutions, even in religiously … punishment norms failing to resolve these deficits. Our study suggests that a culture of organized crime can affect adolescent … norms and attitudes that might support a vicious cycle of in-group favoritism and crime that in turn hinders economic …

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. …

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 …

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 …

Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing … economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across establishment size that is validated … against the data in South America. We find that high expectation of crime at the establishment- level is strongly associated …

One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …