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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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The war on drugs and crime rates
Saadatmand, Yassaman; Toma, Michael; Choquette, Jeremy - In: Journal of business & economics research 10 (2012) 5, pp. 285-290
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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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The impact of race on policing and arrests
Donohue, John J.; Levitt, Steven D. - In: The journal of law & economics 44 (2001) 2,1, pp. 367-394
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Who watches the watchmen : evidence of the effect of body-worn cameras on New York City policing
Zamoff, Mitchell E.; Greenwood, Brad N.; Burtch, Gordon - In: The journal of law, economics, and organization 38 (2022) 1, pp. 161-195
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Who Watches the Watchmen : Evidence of the Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on New York City Policing
Zamoff, Mitchell - 2020
A flurry of research examining the effect of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on policing has arrived at mixed and inconclusive set findings. We present a multi-year study of the precinct-by-precinct rollout of BWCs in the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the largest metropolitan police force in...
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The impact of race on policing, arrest patterns, and crime
Donohue, John J.; Levitt, Steven D. - 1998
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Estimates of law enforcement costs by crime type for benefit-cost analyses
Hunt, Priscillia; Saunders, Jessica; Kilmer, Beau - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 10 (2019) 1, pp. 95-123
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The Social Cost of a Racially Targeted Police Encounter
Cohen, Mark A. - 2018
This paper identifies the individual components of social harm associated with a hypothetical racially motivated police encounter. An individual who believes they are being targeted by police because they are a member of a racial minority may suffer from fear of physical harm and humiliation by...
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Does it matter who extorts? : extortion by competent and incompetent enforcers
Mishra, Ajit; Samuel, Andrew - 2020
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