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

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

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 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 …

congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both … temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of Quito, Ecuador's Pico y Placa program and evaluates its effect on crime …

Organized crime reinforces its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that …

Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, this kind of anti-crime measure might also induce …

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 …