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Do Cops Know Who to Stop? Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment
Abrams, David S.; Fang, Hanming; Goonetilleke, Priyanka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The standard economic model of police stops implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of stops or searches per officer falls, ceteris paribus. We provide empirical corroboration of such optimizing models of police behavior by examining changes in stops and frisks around...
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Market Response to Racial Uprisings
Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-profile violence against Black civilians and calls for systemic change into shareholder gains and additional revenues for police …
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Police Discretion and Public Safety
Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation across officers in this discretionary behavior, we find that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and...
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Does nothing stop a bullet like a job?$bthe effects of income on crime
Ludwig, Jens; Schnepel, Kevin T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do jobs and income-transfer programs affect crime? The answer depends on why one is asking the question, which shapes what one means by "crime." Many studies focus on understanding why overall crime rates vary across people, places, and time; since 80% of all crimes are property offenses, that's...
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Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism : Understanding the Revolving Door
Humphries, John Eric; Ouss, Aurélie; Stavreva, Kamelia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who are recently convicted but not sentenced to prison or jail. We develop an empirical framework for studying the consequences of noncarceral conviction by...
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Positive Incentives : The Income Effect and The Optimal Regulation of Crime
MacLeod, William Bentley; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Theories of crime in economics focus on the roles of deterrence and incapacitation in reducing criminal activity. In addition to deterrence, a growing body of empirical evidence has shown that both income support and employment subsidies can play a role in crime reduction. This paper extends the...
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The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers
Markowitz, Sara - 2000
of the effects of drug and alcohol consumption on violence may be biased because of the possibility that both behaviors … consumption in the violence equation. This technique allows the consumption measures to be purged of their correlation with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471276
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Criminal Violence and Alcohol Beverage Control : Evidence from an International Study
Markowitz, Sara - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471295
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Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment
Paxson, Christina - 1999
This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse or neglect. Using state-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471441
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Alcohol Regulation and Violence on College Campuses
Grossman, Michael - 1999
violence on college campuses. The principal hypothesis tested is that the incidence of violence is negatively related to the … alcohol and violence and the negative relationship between the use of alcohol and its price. The data employed in the study … adverse consequences of its use. These adverse consequences include the following indicators of violence: getting in trouble …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471665