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

Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … about the prison population shapes tastes for punitive anti-crime policies. Respondents in the treatment group received …

Relatively little is known about the effects of blue-collar crime (theft, robbery, vandalism or arson) on financial … decisions. Previous literature has focused its attention either on 'regional' crime rates or the 'perception' of crime as … business obstacles. Instead, we examine financing terms of 'individual' firms that 'effectively' experimented blue-collar crime …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …

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