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

benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon job loss, especially for …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal … conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …