the police, and constituencies they serve and protect. This process subsumes three interrelated interpretations: more …

public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors … overall crime between 4.9% and 5.7%, depending on the specification. Our results further suggest that more accountable mayors … prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results …

Half of all finance and insurance firms in Norway report that they are exposed to economic crime, particularly fraud … economic crime. However, the estimated fraction of unreported, non-registered economic crime in the country is ninety … the main economic crime categories of fraud, theft, manipulation, and corruption as used by scholars to study the survey …

's perspective, and therefore led the Police to increase its activity against crime … arrestees from the Police to the Prison Authority. Using the staggered introduction of the reform in different regions of the …. These findings are consistent with the idea that the reform externalized the cost of housing arrestees from the Police …

Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of … the extra police services on crime. Extra police provided by the university generate approximately 45-60 percent fewer … extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the …

serious crime more than white arrestees. The racial discrepancy is greater for agencies serving cities with higher per …

how the Equitable Sharing rule influenced crime and police incentives by taking advantage of pre-existing differences in …In 1984 the federal government passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. The act included language that permitted … state level civil forfeiture law and the timing of the CCCA. We find that after the CCCA, crime fell upwards of 13.4 percent …

a crime is greater than the expected cost associated with it. The size of the police force increases the expected cost … effect of police on crime and results are not uniform. This paper is an attempt to test the same in Indian context (for … selected crime categories). It is found that police force acts as a deterrent for violent crimes (Murder, Kidnapping & Murder …

that “[strip clubs and gentleman’s clubs] decrease sex crime by 13% per police precinct one week after the opening.” We … document that the police had an unfounded belief in criminal activity and the person was in fact innocent of any crime. In …Ciacci & Sviatschi’s (2021) “The Effect of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …