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 …

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 …

whether that system actually takes corporate crime seriously. Corporate prosecutions, convictions, and punishment continue to …

reductions among first offenders primarily reflect outcomes for offenders who live in lower-crime areas of the city and are not …