, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. -- Video Games ; Violence ; Crime …

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 …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs-crime channel within …

reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform … aggregate effects on crime. Instead, we find changes in the way theft is committed. We observe increases in car theft, apartment …

the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … on criminal offences and broadband internet measured at the municipality level to shed light on the question. In order to … effects might stem from indirect effects related to differences in reporting crime, a matching effect, and a direct effect of …

model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …