simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing anti-social behavior such as crime. Indeed, recent evidence shows … that participation in active labor market programs reduces crime among unemployed young men. The existence of such effects …

The relationship between neighborhood physical environment and social disorder, particularly crime, is of critical … interventions to improve physical conditions in distressed neighborhoods have also been heralded for their potential to reduce crime … negative spillovers — including crime — on surrounding neighborhoods. In this paper, we investigate the impact of NSP …