recidivating within a year by 20 percent. This is largely a specific deterrence effect driven by the punishment itself and not by …

deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …

, seemingly providing a rare opportunity to test directly the deterrence model. Combining experimental parameter estimates with an … consequence, the experiment ultimately turns out to be of limited use for testing deterrence.  …

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For …

crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of …

This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional … police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be …

of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to … heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative effect on aggregate crime rates. However, our findings indicate that … a minimum of one year is required following the implementation of the obligations for a decline in crime rates to occur …