Traditional economic models of criminal behavior have straightforward predictions: raising the expected cost of crime … via apprehension probabilities or punishments decreases crime. I test the effect of harsher punishments on deterring …

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …

empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital …

crime rates, based on county-level panels of SUD treatment and crime data between 2001 and 2008 across the United States. To … address the potential endogeneity of the SUD treatment rate with respect to crime rate, we exploit the exogenous variation in … the SUD treatment rate at an average cost of $1.6 billion yields a crime reduction benefit of $2.5 billion to $4.8 billion …

2013 the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction …

We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee … Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use … at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent, property and income-producing crime even after accounting for …