presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime …

adolescents who suffer from depression face a substantially increased probability of engaging in property crime. We find little … evidence that adolescent depression predicts the likelihood of engaging in violent crime or the selling of illicit drugs. Our … estimates imply that the lower-bound economic cost of property crime associated with adolescent depression is about 219 million …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on … potential offenders and victims, and a direct effect on crime propensity. Our results indicate that the direct effect is non …

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … large relative increases in crime rates in the medium term, but these effects virtually disappear in the long term. This …

This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i … the tendency for individuals to stay home after a terror attack further increases the costs of crime …

shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …