criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and … violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … incidence of criminal violence. The data come from the 1989 and 1992 International Victimization Surveys. The sample used in …

high temperatures increase intense violence among the incarcerated. Days with unsafe heat index levels shift both the … intensive and extensive margins of violence, raising daily violent interactions by 20%, and the probability of any violence by … 18%. Our setting cleanly identifies the effect of heat on violence, and highlights previously unobserved social costs of …

Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …

In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …

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 …

-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 …

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 …

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 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 …