diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …, imprisonment) and severity (length of prison sentence, amount of fine) of punishment are often small and insignificant. …

a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

-and-matching frictions between criminals and crime opportunities. The study examines the impact on the four largest cities in North America … crimes while decreasing burglaries and sexual offenses through a reduction of crime opportunities. …