and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime due to the war on drugs. Exploiting the … fact that the timing, virulence and spatial distribution of changes in violent crime were unanticipated, we establish the … that are fixed over time. As local-area violent crime increases, there is a rise in risk aversion that is distributed …

This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law …-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of criminal organizations, on community violence in the context of Mexico's drug war … that are accompanied by escalations in violence …

Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In … of interpersonal violence, such as "crimes of passion." We ask whether economic or non-economic factors better explain … the well-established relationship between temperature and violence in a unique context where intergroup killings by drug …

-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 …