We provide a critical discussion of the concept drug-related crime and review methods for estimating its volume … 2003-6, combining data from the Arrestee Survey and Offending Crime and Justice Survey to ensure adequate coverage of … the volume of drug-induced acquisitive crime linked to heroin use is high, but there is no significant evidence of violent …

data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …

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 …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …