-defense in this way deters crime or, alternatively, increases homicide. To do so, we apply a difference-in-differences research …

attacks and crime-related shootings. The primary finding of our analysis is the importance of separating these types of … attacks and crime-related shootings. Analyses that ignore these distinctions or focus on a particular type may provide a …

media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to …Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether … 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We find that violent crime decreases on days with larger theater audiences …

-at-home (SAH), or “lockdown” policies. Using cell phone block-level activity data and administrative 911 and crime data from the … by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …

Violence is one of the leading social problems in the United States. The development of appropriate public policies to … curtail violence is confounded by the relationship between alcohol and violence. In this paper, we estimate the propensity of … alcohol control policies to reduce the perpetration and victimization of criminal violence. We measure violence with data on …

such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation …, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other … impacts of cash and therapy on crime may be larger than suggested by surveys alone …

violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. Our preferred panel data regression specification …, unlike the statistical model of Lott and Mustard that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws … overall violent crime. Our synthetic control approach also strongly confirms that RTC laws are associated with 13-15 percent …

measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the … proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many …

We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured … politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about the use of pre-electoral violence under different types of … rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of ‘electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …