calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both …

Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely … remains a 'black box' (Western, 2021). This paper studies the impact of the new psychoactive substances (NPS) epidemic within … seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large …

decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest. …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws … counselling services, (2) cross-sectional survey data collected during the first wave of the pandemic, and (3) a qualitative … online survey with counsellors and domestic violence experts. The number of violence-related requests at helplines increased …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

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. …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …