waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical …

This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect gender-based violence (GBV). Using Twitter data … 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 …

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model … role for all crimes, especially for petty crimes. This suggests that, for juvenile crime, an effective policy should not … only be measured by the possible crime reduction it implies but also by the group interactions it engenders. -- Social …

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

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

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 …

, increase crime. …