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Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
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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 …
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's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …
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We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property … crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK that households of South Asian descent … neighbourhood-level panel on reported crime and difference-in-differences, we find that burglaries in South Asian neighbourhoods are …
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Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated …In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in … uninsured and unemployment insured men, and part of this decline can be identified as a direct effect of workfare participation …
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