Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent … crimes against women in the developing world. This paper investigates whether the election of a female politician reduces the …

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

per 100,000 population and with an increasing trend. Yet most evidence of crime concentration, geo-temporal patterns, and … event dependence comes from cities in high-income countries. Understanding crime patterns in the region and how they compare … to those in high-income countries is of first-order importance to formulate crime reduction policies. This paper is the …

who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …

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

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is …

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 …