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Crime deterrence : evidence from the London 2011 riots

Bell, Brian; Jaitman, Laura; Machin, Stephen - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 576, pp. 480-506

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Law incentives for juvenile recruiting by drug trafficking gangs : empirical evidence from Rio de Janeiro

Montolio, Daniel; Oliveira, Cristiano Aguiar de - 2020

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The changing returns to crime : do criminals respond to prices?

Draca, Mirko; Koutmeridis, Theodore; Machin, Stephen - 2015

In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse … this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … burglary incidents. We first consider a panel of consumer goods covering the majority of market goods stolen in the crime …

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Does homeownership reduce crime? : a radical housing reform in Britain

Disney, Richard; Gathergood, John; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020

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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? : disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023

Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...

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