increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by … that there is no discernible effect on county-level crime rates. These null effects are consistent across all types of …

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

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 …

. 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 …

, increase crime. …

ascertain if there is a link between refugee settlements and local crime rates or terrorist events in the United States. We fail …

deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …