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move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … market for cannabis and crime, accounting for the behavior of police and cannabis users. This highlights that many of the …We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities …
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move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … market for cannabis and crime, accounting for the behavior of police and cannabis users. This highlights that many of the …We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094083
move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … market for cannabis and crime, accounting for the behavior of police and cannabis users. This highlights that many of the …We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764108
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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random- and fixed-effects approaches. While there are limitations in the use of bias-motivation crime data in empirical … analysis, we find statistical significance between the incidence of hate crime and several economic and socioeconomic variables …. Most notably, among non-South states, a higher hate crime rate is associated with higher abuse rates, higher unemployment …
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The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy�s local labor … markets and analyzes the short-term response of crime to the severe slump of 2007-2009. It shows that the downturn led to a …-worker contractual arrangements) had a role in slowing down the effect of the economy on crime; ii) the link between the downturn and …
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This paper provides further evidence on the impact of crime on the job market using the time series data over the … period 1980-2007 for Argentina. We also address methodological flaws by earlier crime studies by employing autoregressive … statistically positive effect on the crime rate, depending on the model used. …
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We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new … neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …
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self-reported crime at age 18 and 21. The effects are robust to various specifications of the age-crime relationship and to …
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The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy’s local labor … markets and analyzes the short-term response of crime to the severe slump of 2007-2009. It shows that the downturn led to a …-worker contractual arrangements) had a role in slowing down the effect of the economy on crime; ii) the link between the downturn and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125888