earthquake decreased burglaries but left other crime types unaffected. The effect stays significant even after controlling for … unemployment, policing and income. We corroborate this by instrumenting damages with the distance from the earthquake epicentre … theory of crime, value and specialization. We conclude that burglars respond to damages that devaluate their prospective …

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …

the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …. This paper studies the roles of prices, policing and policy in explaining these crime dynamics. The empirical analysis … shows sizeable and significant metal crime-price elasticities, in line with the idea that changing economic returns do shape …

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 …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount.Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …

between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … with respect to the method of estimation. Whereas conventional mean regressions do not show any significant effect (which …