deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …

This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were … displaced to the surrounding area. -- surveillance cameras ; crime ; natural experiments …

This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance … introduction of the cameras reduced crime by approximately 20 percent in busy stations. I also show that some of the crimes were …

Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed …

crime data available from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 survey to determine if black men with criminal …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of … business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effect of crime on … previous studies, which focus on perceived rather than actual crime and often deal with geographically limited areas, we do not …

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …