reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …

Abstract This paper extends the Becker (1968)-Ehrlich (1973) model of crime to allow for government transfers. Using … in turn allows an integration of a crime model with a standard public finance model. Using King et al. (1988) preferences … that policies undertaken with the intent of deterring crime may, unintuitively, lead to an increase in crime. This provides …

deterrence' to crime: the threat of future adverse effects on employment payoffs when caught committing crimes reduces the … dynamic deterrence will be less effective in fighting crime. This suggests that prevention is more powerful than redemption …

women get 56 percent longer sentences. Drivers who kill blacks get 53 percent shorter sentences …

A strong, negative empirical correlation exists between arrest rates and reported crime rates. While this relationship …, and/or a spurious correlation that would be induced by measurement error in reported crime rates. This paper attempts to … arrest rates and crime. Using a modified version of the techniques of Griliches and Hausman (1986) for dealing with …

The 1984 federal Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA) included a provision that permitted local law enforcement … forfeited assets influenced crime and police incentives by taking advantage of pre-existing differences in state level civil … asset forfeiture law and the timing of the CCCA. We find that after the CCCA was enacted crime fell about 17 percent in …

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 …