a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

This paper aims to investigate the long-run relationship between crime, inequality, unemployment and deterrence using … structures. The results show that: i) a simple crime model well fits the long run relationship; ii) income inequality and … unemployment have a positive impact on crime, whereas deterrence displays a negative sign; iii) the effect of income inequality on …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …