Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose concerns ? Is … it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has a …

Using data for 134 locations in New Zealand, we study the effects of crime and agglomeration on urban amenity. We find … that crime has significant negative effects on the value of urban amenity, with elasticities of approximately −0.06 for … approximately 2-3 times more sensitive to crime than average temperature. More uniquely, we find that controlling for crime leads to …

-area crime rates decrease arrest rates among individuals. Our analysis exploits the fact that the effect of treatment group …-site interactions to instrument for measures of neighborhood crime rates, poverty and racial segregation in our analysis of individual …