Guns and Violence tells a remarkable story of a society's self-destruction, of how a government in a few decades … managed to reverse six hundred years of social progress in violence reduction. The book is also a testament to the amazing …

order” in its Criminal Finances Act 2017. On 7-8 November 2017, London hosted the Fifth OECD Forum on Tax and Crime. Against … crime, this working paper researches the role that tax laws and tax authorities play in either helping or hindering …

response highlights the importance of public policies which reduce the private cost of reporting crime …

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 …

behavior and illegal activity. In this study, we investigate the effects of COVID-19-induced lockdowns on recorded crime in … unveiling the impact on criminal activities by type of shutdown policy. We use official crime data across the universe of local … authorities dating back to May 2013 for recorded crime categories. We find that (1) National lockdowns decrease all types of …

We provide causal evidence of the impact of the Brexit referendum vote on hate crime in the United Kingdom (UK). Using … Brexit referendum led to an increase in hate crime by around 15-25%. This effect was concentrated in the first quarter after … role in the increase in hate crime. …

We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates … percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it … by 3.9 per cent in the South. The crime-reducing effect depends mainly on incapacitation (i.e. adolescents stay in school …