We study a Force-down/Shoot-down intervention in Brazil that led cocaine traffickers to shift from air to river routes …. Using data on cocaine production, homicides, and the network of rivers in the Amazon, we provide evidence that violence …, during the same period, violence in these municipalities became more responsive to cocaine production in origin countries. We …

high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle … of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …

We move forward in identifying the causes of the marked and systematic reduction in the homicide rate in São Paulo …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in … carry laws attenuate the temperature-homicide relationship. Additional results suggest that restrictions primarily decrease …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in … carry laws attenuate the temperature-homicide relationship. Additional results suggest that restrictions primarily decrease …

auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities in Brazil increased the monitoring of spare parts sold by junkyards …

The article comments on a new generation of researchers studying the illegal markets in Brazil. In doing so, I … summarize the interpretative model of ‘social accumulation of violence’. Initially applied to Rio de Janeiro, several … researchers have now expanded it to other Brazilian states as well as to countries with high violence rates, such as Colombia and …

This paper critically reviews a vast array of literature on the costs of crime and common violence. Using a simple …