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Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
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Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252023
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 …
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In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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incentives and deter crime in the long run. …
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Becker's theory of crime, penalties must be at least as high as expected benefits to deter crimes. For example, we start by …
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This article estimates the impact of weather on crime in the Czech Republic. Using detailed crime data during the years …
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regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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We use a panel dataset of around 3.500 rural households from Southeast Asia and investigate evidence on crime … victimization. More concretely, we ask (1) to what extent are rural people in Thailand and Vietnam affected by crime? And (2) what … factors determine rural crime victimization? We use the routine activity approach as the theoretical framework and apply …
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