This paper develops a model of spatial violence diffusion when criminal organizations specialized in one illegal … violence triggered by the Mexican War on Drugs. The model predicts that violence will spread to locations with strategic value … this portfolio reallocation of illegal activities affected the spatial diffusion of violence. We show that violence …

Drugs and crime are known to be correlated, but the direction of causality and the magnitude of the relationship have …-site dataset of 3,500 inner-city drug users entering treatment. We analyze the change in crime and in drug use pre and post … find that treatment reduces drug use which, in turn, reduced drug decreases crime. Reduced drug use due to treatment is …

Drugs and crime are known to be correlated, but the direction of causality and the magnitude of the relationship have …-site dataset of 3,500 inner-city drug users entering treatment. We analyze the change in crime and in drug use pre and post … find that treatment reduces drug use which, in turn, reduced drug decreases crime. Reduced drug use due to treatment is …

Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …-robust relationship exists between violence and real income per capita. Additionally, the findings show that human capital based on years …

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 …