consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use and crime. Using data covering the period 2000-2019 from a variety of … national sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Vital Statistics System …

Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …

An April 2016 Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) report advocated raising the minimum wage to deter crime. This … minimal adverse employment effects. This study comprehensively assesses the impact of minimum wages on crime using data from … the 1998-2016 Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and National Longitudinal …

Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans … of modern warfare on crime. Using data from two national surveys and a unified framework, we find consistent evidence … that post-9/11 combat service substantially increased the probability of crime commission among veterans. Combat increases …

This paper shows that participation in crime and involvement with the criminal justice system has reached extraordinary … levels among young men. With approximately 2 percent as many men incarcerated as in the labor force, the crime rate should … the continued high level of crime by less educated men, despite incapacitation and the deterrent effect of imprisonment …

This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging … have reduced the rate of crime, through the incapacitation of criminals and through the deterrent effect of potential … arrest and imprisonment. But administrative records show no such drop in crime and the victims survey shows a fall far below …

entire decade. The magnitudes of incarceration, probation, and parole among black dropouts, in particular, suggest that crime …. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …, crime offers an increasingly attractive alternative …

-Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reports, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study is the first to … estimate the effect of BTB laws on crime. We find some evidence that BTB laws are associated with an increase in property crime …-induced increases in crime for non-Hispanic whites and women. Finally, we find that BTB laws are associated with a reduction in property …