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Crime and Expected Punishment : Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority

Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2010

This paper assesses whether perceived punishment severity changes discontinuously when an individual becomes an adult …

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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2021 - This version: January 07, 2021

This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional … police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …

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Does Capital Punishment Have a “Local” Deterrent Effect on Homicides?

Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2010

The vast majority of death penalty studies use geographically or temporally aggregated data. Such aggregation can make it virtually impossible to identify small amounts of variation in homicides due to executions. Therefore, this study uses data that are disaggregated down to daily and city...

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