migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões. Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing … per cent increase in the homicide rate in destinations. Exploring possible channels, I do not find that crime …-prone migrants drive the results. The effect is only significant in locations with high past crime rates, indicating crime inertia …

This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early … live in a high-crime locality would marry their daughters off at an early age to protect the chastity of their daughters … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …

revenue in 2019. Organized oil crime syndicates are often transnational and conduct theft and fraud professionally, exploiting …. The proceeds of oil theft often finance other organized crime, and it triggers violence against the community and in crime-on-crime …

lesser forms of crime than human trafficking, the drugs trade, smuggling of weapons, kidnapping, and terrorism. However, oil … theft as an act of opportunity tends to evolve into organized crime and, if left unchecked, oil theft may interlink with … other organized crime activities and groups. Actions against oil theft should target the transnational crime syndicates that …

When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites …. Former mayors of areas near oil pipelines remain at high risk of assassination. In municipalities where at least one mayor … has already been killed, the arrest of a member of organized crime significantly increases the chance that an incumbent …