. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …

Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that …

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various … deterrent effect of the death penalty, but profound uncertainty -- even about its sign. -- execution ; capital punishment … ; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence …

This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global … cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the variation between … other countries. But the estimated models predict only one-fourth of US incarceration and not all of US crime. The …

limited research suggests that these immigrants also have a lower propensity to commit crime than their native-born peers … findings, indicating that a legalization program reduces crime rates. Meanwhile, increased border enforcement, which reduces … unauthorized immigrant inflows, has mixed effects on crime rates. A large-scale legalization program, which is not currently under …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …