In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. We then use instrumental variables based on … types of crime. Since robberies represent a very small fraction of all criminal offences, the effect on the overall crime …

presence of organized crime, under democratic and non-democratic regimes, proportional and majoritarian elections, and between … contested and non-contested districts. We provide additional evidence on the influence of organized crime on politics using …

Immigration enforcement has ambiguous implications for the crime rate of undocumented immigrants. On the one hand …, expulsions reduce the pool of immigrants at risk of committing crimes, on the other they lower the opportunity cost of crime for … those who are not expelled. We estimate the effect of expulsions on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in Italy …

that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job …