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 …

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 …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …

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

these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and … victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital Statistics to examine how Stand Your Ground laws affect … your ground ; castle doctrine ; guns ; crime …

; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence …

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

experienced a dramatic increase in crime, consolidating it as one of the most violent areas in the world. Despite previous …. In this paper, we use the Latin American case to evaluate the impact of an adversarial reform on crime rates. Exploiting … crime rates (22%), violent crime (15%), and property crime (8%). However, we observe a dramatic decrease in drug offenses …