punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or …

showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime … centrality. -- Crime ; Bonacich Centrality ; Dynamic Network Formation ; Crime Policies …

in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities … influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease …

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 …

Buenos Aires, Argentina. We find a large, significant, robust, and immediate decline in crime following quarantine … restrictions. We observe the effect on property crime reported to official agencies, police arrests, and crime reported in … still large in commercial and residential areas (including informal settlements). After the sharp and immediate fall, crime …

Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … considered an effective and cost-viable alternative to interventions based on harsher punishment alone. In particular we study … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore …