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Do Police Maximize Arrests or Minimize Crime? Evidence from Racial Profiling in U.S. Cities
Stashko, Allison - 2020
arrests or to minimize crime? In this paper, I compare models of the two police objectives to data from U.S. cities. Empirical … evidence is consistent with a model of arrest maximization and inconsistent with a model of crime minimization. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852766
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Why do (or do not) banks share customer information? : A comparison of mature private credit markets and markets in transition
Major, Iván (contributor) - 2006
Credit bureaus administering information sharing among lenders about customers reduce information asymmetry and should be key to modern credit markets. In contrast to former studies, we show that willingness to share information depends more on institutions and market concentration than on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435416
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The effect of police on crime : evidence from the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo
Masiero, Ilaria - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 21 (2020) 1, pp. 47-72
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623358
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Organization and information in the fight against crime : the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 17 (2017) 2, pp. 29-63
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688464
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Organization and information in the fight against crime : an evaluation of the integration of police forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Viveiros, Igor - 2010
presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. -- Crime ; police …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697388
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Organization and information in the fight against crime : an evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - 2010
presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. -- crime ; police …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154557
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Best of both worlds : hybrid knowledge visualtization in police crime fighting and military operations
Eppler, Martin J.; Pfister, Roland Andreas - In: Journal of knowledge management 18 (2014) 4, pp. 824-840
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419817
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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2010
presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136711
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Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City
Corman, Hope - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We … by exploiting the temporal independence of crime and deterrence in these high-frequency data, and we address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087883
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Measuring the Contribution of Criminal Justice Systems to the Control of Crime and Violence : Lessons from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic
Foglesong, Todd - 2007
Governments facing high levels of crime and violence must act through their criminal justice systems to increase safety … society, and (2) reducing the proximate causes of crime. All countries depend on some combination of these two strategies, but … while governments tend to favor the first, the second usually produces greater crime reduction. We show how improving five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730337