, 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 … East and West Germany. Our results are based on static and dynamic panel econometrics/criminometrics. They confirm the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

carrying out own empirical investigation on the basis of international panel data sets from different levels of regional … 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … effects might stem from indirect effects related to differences in reporting crime, a matching effect, and a direct effect of …