We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification … enforcement program based on local-federal cooperation which was rolled out across counties between 2008 and 2013. We instrument … not reduce crime rates for violent offenses or property offenses. Our estimates are small and precise, so we can rule out …

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas …

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a … 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 …

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 …

the cooperation of local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities, affect domestic homicide rates – a crime … lack of confidence in the police and fear they might be asked about their immigration status or that of relatives and … white-non Hispanic women or men. The impact is particularly large in counties with higher immigration enforcement and in …

crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants …Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the ….S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find that intensified interior immigration enforcement has curbed the VAWA …