Dills, Angela K.; Miron, Jeffrey A.; Summers, Garrett - 2008
"In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer … horizons or across countries. This conclusion applies both to policy variables like arrest rates or capital punishment and to …