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 …. Furthermore, we find evidence that female officers help prevent the escalation of domestic violence. Increases in female officer …

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 …

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 …

This article analyses the factors that cause violence in Latin America. It argues that high levels of violence can not …

This paper criticizes multicausal and penal impunity explanations of violence and crime. It shows the analytical limits … of identifying state and social institutional failure with objective causes of violence. But also highlights that …

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 … organizations that remain on the market, while increasing drug production and violence. Finally, we discuss the hypothetical case of …

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 …

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 …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …