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Fighting organized crime in Mexico : 2006-2012

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Spillover effects on homicides across Mexican municipalities : a spatial regime model approach

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The effect of community traumatic events on student achievement : evidence from the Beltway Sniper attacks

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Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...

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America's deadly export : evidence from cross-country panel data of deportation and homicide rates

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Do execution moratoriums increase homicide? : re-examining evidence from Illinois

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Impulse purchases, gun ownership and homicides : evidence from a firearm demand shock

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Socio-economics characteristics and spatial persistence of homicides in Colombia, 2000-2010

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analysis of homicides rate during 2000- 2010 is undertaken through the inclusion of temporal dynamic characteristics in a … that affects the demographic dynamics and social connectivity of the last decade that affects homicides and their temporal … density of young population and low coverage in secondary education affect the diffusion and concentration of homicides in …

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Violence and human capital investments

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Crime and government expenditure in Brazil : estimating the impact of government security spending on homicide rates

Gomes, Camila - 2018

Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between security spending and the rate of homicides. The … leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …

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