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Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed …
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Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed …
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Little is known about the costs of crime to victims. We use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and …
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This paper traces the recent history and development of privately operated prisons in the United States and the United Kingdom, and it compares their current role in the countries' correctional systems. The privatization movements of the U.S. and the U.K. were driven by similar factors, but the...
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to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
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We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We … differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a … decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental …
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We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …
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