commit crime by about two percentage points for juveniles but has no impact on damaging property. The results indicate that … between siblings and twins indicate that drug use has a significant impact on the propensity to commit crime. We find that the … inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …

impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teens use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

The impact of organized crime on inter-regional price disparities in Russia is estimated for each year from 1992 to … of the country. The relationship between prices and crime is, for the most part, statistically significant and positive …. Organized crime considerably contributes to the average cross-region price dispersion. However, the effect of organized crime …

a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and organized crime organizations, their sources and …

, corrupted police officers, and the power of the organized crime. Naturally, poverty and warfare contribute to the rising tide of … human trafficking in illegal migration and the role played by the national and transnational organized crime. The …

corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … generate higher crime rates. In particular, the relationship between the traditional instruments of deterrence, namely … intensification of policing and increment of sanctions, and crime is nonmonotonic. Beyond a threshold, increases in expected …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

How do changes in mobility impact crime? Using police precinct-level daily crime statistics and shootings data from the …, despite fewer people being on the streets. To address the relationship between crime and mobility, we use cellphone data and … strongly affected extortion and property crimes while not interfering with the dynamics of violent crime. These findings …