reporting and domestic violence escalation. Along these two key dimensions, we find that female officers improved police quality … against women in that area, and especially domestic violence, are reported to the police at significantly higher rates. There …We study the impact of the integration of women in US policing between the late 1970s and early 1990s on violent crime …

women's improved access to inheritance on both police-reported and self-reported violence against women. I find a decrease … in reported violence and female unnatural deaths following the amendments. Further, women eligible for inheritance are 17 … percent less likely to be victims of domestic violence. These findings are explained by an improvement in husbands' behaviour …

reporting. A comparison of crime reporting with police crime statistics and the WISIND indicator on the fear of crime also shows …The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime …. One key finding is that crime-related issues play a comparativelyminor role in local editions of regional subscription …

This article reviews the evidence on the deterrent effect of police, imprisonment, and capital punishment and … additionally summarizes knowledge of sanction risk perceptions. Studies of changes in police presence, whether achieved by changes … in police numbers or in their strategic deployment, consistently find evidence of deterrent effects. Studies of the …

This study considers the effect that judicial and police efficiency exercised on crime in 25 of the 33 political …-administrative divisions in Colombia during the period 2000- 2011. Specifically, the study seeks to determine whether the reduction of crime … was the result of increases in the cost of crime as a result of the strengthening of the country’s security forces …

Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of … domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads to a decrease in domestic violence. In … this paper, we study the relationship between women employment and domestic violence in India. We used a nationally …

reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …

This paper analyzes the levels of violence generated by the implementation of policies to discourage crime in an … the level of violence necessary to stay in the drug market. Subsequently, we analyze a policy of fighting against … organized crime: the results show that this policy reduces the number of criminal organizations, and increases profits for those …