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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250081
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252023
late 1990s. This paper studies its impact on crime, showing that RTB generated significant reductions in property and … violent crime that persist up to today. The behavioural changes of incumbent tenants and the renovation of public properties … were the main drivers of the crime reduction. This is evidence of a novel means by which subsidised homeownership and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422764
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296815
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374569
late 1990s. This paper studies its impact on crime, showing that RTB generated significant reductions in property and … violent crime that persist up to today. The behavioural changes of incumbent tenants and the renovation of public properties … were the main drivers of the crime reduction. This is evidence of a novel means by which subsidised homeownership and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395204
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003649800
In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces … increased police resources do in fact lead to lower crime, at least in the context of the SCI programme we study. -- street …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287664
In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … identifies a causal impact of police on crime. Implementing an instrumental variable approach shows an elasticity of crime with … respect to police of approximately -0.3, so that a 10 percent increase in police activity reduces crime by around 3 percent …
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