influence adolescents' decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that- at least for the case of … property crime - the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in … plausible hypotheses. On the whole, our results imply that urban crime in Latin America is, to an important extent, a reflection …

congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both … temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of Quito, Ecuador's Pico y Placa program and evaluates its effect on crime …

local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …

who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is tobecome less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime) …

study area. The principal components analysis of sense of security and crime victimization variables indicates that higher …-income households feel more secure from crime in the home, even though theft and robbery victimization rise with household income and …

This paper attempts to evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales in Bogota and … quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. It is found that the restriction … the causal pharmacological impact of alcohol consumption on crime using the restriction as an instrument for problematic …