. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …

courts, has a deterrent effect on dishonest and criminal acts. A higher perceived quality of the judicial system makes …

therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk … pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine … limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of …

This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We … by exploiting the temporal independence of crime and deterrence in these high-frequency data, and we address the …

Cities target police patrols and public services to control crime. What are the direct and spillover effects of such …,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police patrols, greater municipal services, both, or neither. We study how crime … responds to intensifying normal state presence in moderate- to high-crime streets, and what this implies about criminal …