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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2010

presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime …

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Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2021

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …

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Organization and information in the fight against crime : an evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - 2010

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Organization and information in the fight against crime : an evaluation of the integration of police forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - 2010

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Using a Terrorist Attack to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

Di Tella, Rafael; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2002

An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate significant causal effects of police on crime. Following a … hideous event induced a geographical allocation of police forces that can be presumed exogenous in a crime regression. Using … negative effect of observable police on crime. The effect is local, so that the costs of police presence are almost seven times …

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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - 2010

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Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data

Dezhbakhsh, Hashem; Rubin, Paul H.; Shepherd, Joanna M. - 2003

Evidence on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is important for many states that are currently reconsidering their position on the issue. We examine the deterrent hypothesis using county-level, post-moratorium panel data and a system of simultaneous equations. The procedure we employ...

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Organization and information in the fight against crime : the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 17 (2017) 2, pp. 29-63

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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil’s Special Civil Tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...

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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...

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