Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information …

We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We … differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a … decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental …

congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both … temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of Quito, Ecuador's Pico y Placa program and evaluates its effect on crime …