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We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not in neighboring districts. We collect data from female sex workers and their clients before and after the change. We...
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analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the leading scholarly commentaries on the crime drop during the 1990s have … sort have the potential to both reduce crime rates and reduce arrests and imprisonment. Well-designed regulations and …One creative method to harness private action to cost-effective crime control is the creation of business improvement …
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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 …
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Strong sentences are common "tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in … participating in crime may adjust. I use California's Three Strikes law to identify several effects of a large increase in the … combined with the high cost of violent crime relative to non-violent crime implies that Three Strikes may not be a cost …
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Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The … statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely … uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across cities. The ups and downs of crime have a considerable effect on …
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We present a simple model of the effects of hate crime legislation. It shows that even if the direct harm to victims of … hate crime is the same as for other crimes, because of other differences in the effects it may still be optimal to exert … more law-enforcement effort to deter or prevent hate crime. These differences also have previously unrecognized effects on …
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Why does illegal trade often flourish without formal enforcement, but sometimes fail? Why do illegal trade-reducing policies often fail? Why do States often appear to tolerate illegal trade? A model of trade with cops and robbers provides answers. `Safety in numbers' is a key element: the...
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to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested … to engage in crime during subsequent periods. Following an arrest, individuals commit less crime, consistent with …
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. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …
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Drugs and crime are known to be correlated, but the direction of causality and the magnitude of the relationship have …-site dataset of 3,500 inner-city drug users entering treatment. We analyze the change in crime and in drug use pre and post … find that treatment reduces drug use which, in turn, reduced drug decreases crime. Reduced drug use due to treatment is …
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