; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence …

uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th …

perception of a link between immigration and crime, immigrants have much lower institutionalization (incarceration) rates than …"Much of the concern about immigration adversely affecting crime derives from the fact that immigrants tend to have … immigration and crime led to legislation in the 1990s increasing punishments toward criminal aliens. Despite the widespread …

equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …