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 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 …) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … identifies a causal impact of police on crime. Implementing an instrumental variable approach shows an elasticity of crime with … respect to police of approximately -0.3, so that a 10 percent increase in police activity reduces crime by around 3 percent. …

police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

We employ a unique 10-year panel dataset from California to examine both the effect crime has on homelessness as well … as the effect homelessness has on crime. Our main estimator accounts for endogeneity by incorporating dynamics … interest. We find strong evidence that regions experiencing increases in property crime, but not violent crime, should expect a …

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces … increased police resources do in fact lead to lower crime, at least in the context of the SCI programme we study. …

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 …

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. …

This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its … between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …