gang activity and violent crime than is widely accepted. While areas with more gang activity also have more violence, our … governments, use violence to enforce rules, the net impact of gangs is to lower violent crime. We test this hypothesis and offer …We hypothesize the failure of government to protect the rights of individuals from violence committed by youths has led …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property … crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK that households of South Asian descent … neighbourhood-level panel on reported crime and difference-in-differences, we find that burglaries in South Asian neighbourhoods are …

gang activity and violent crime than is widely accepted. While areas with more gang activity also have more violence, our … governments, use violence to enforce rules, the net impact of gangs is to lower violent crime. We test this hypothesis and offer …We hypothesize the failure of government to protect the rights of individuals from violence committed by youths has led …