Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were … displaced to the surrounding area. -- surveillance cameras ; crime ; natural experiments …