Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime … beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them … to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates …

Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime … beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them … to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates …

Does crime in a neighborhood cause future crime? Without a source of quasi-experimental variation in local crime, we … crimes cause more severe crimes. This suggests that a range of crime reduction policies that target lighter crimes … (prescribed, for instance, by the “broken windows” theory of crime) should not be credited with reducing the violent crime rate …

This paper examines the impact of schools on crime in urban neighborhoods. The change in the public educational … locations have on crime rates. In this paper, we use data on the location and opening of charter and public schools to estimate … the effect that school openings had on neighborhood crime patterns between 1998 and 2010. We estimate the change in crime …