Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the … spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental … variables. Our results indicate that crime rates were not affected during the year of refugee arrival, but there was an increase …

This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations … effects arise from incapacitation, crime displacement, or changes in employment of local police forces. Our results suggest …

Recent evidence suggests a positive impact of air pollution on crime in large cities. We provide first evidence on the … levels. We use a unique combination of daily crime data with weather and emission records for the states of Baden … crime of 4.6%. …

the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … effects might stem from indirect effects related to differences in reporting crime, a matching effect, and a direct effect of …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …

-born inhabitants that face large-scale immigration of asylum seekers witness the strongest upsurge in hate crime. Economically deprived …In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in … effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share of the foreign-born population on anti-foreigner hate crime. Our …