affect the Asia-Pacific Region – namely, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), concluded in late 2010, and the … in patent law today; they risk being positively counterproductive, and exporting to the world the US' own ‘patent crisis ….' The thought of a flood of low quality patents issuing from patent offices throughout the Asia-Pacific, should give …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

DCM induced an 11 percent reduction in criminal incidents involving arrestees ages 19 to 25, driven by property crime … care, increased educational attainment, and increases in parent-adult child cohabitation may explain these crime declines … crime reduction. …

response to Covid-19 in New Zealand for six crime types in six cities. We then use the estimated models to forecast … counterfactual crime trajectories. Novel elements include cleanly defined lockdown periods, two distinct lockdowns with meaningful …

police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime … different regulation systems. We provide evidence that the opening of these zones was not in response to changes in crime. Our …-related crime and long-term effects on sexual assaults. Perceived drug nuisance increases upon opening but then decreases below pre …

The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was … higher in the post-passage period (relative to national crime patterns) for states adopting right-to-carry (RTC) concealed … by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC …