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In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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Generally, crime cannot be perceived directly, but rather only indirectly through media coverage. In terms of the … how local and regional German newspapers report crime. To answer this question, a standardised content analysis of 31 … newspapers was conducted. The findings show that newspaper articles about crime take up a small, yet clearly perceivable space …
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Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …
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and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …) and ex post (fleeing), and that criminals who hide abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …
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This article analyses the effects of public expenditure on the Bolsa Família Program on the Brazilian crime rate. It …
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tendencies and uncertainties for public security. The article is divided in three areas, which are: crime and the sense of …
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policies that would legalize marijuana recreational markets frequently argue that such laws will eliminate crime associated … with the black markets, which many argue is the only link between marijuana use and crime. Law enforcement, however, has … distribution), create crime in neighborhoods with these store-fronts. This study offers new insight into the question by exploiting …
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revenues usually appear as tax evasion, customs fraud and smuggling. It will be the crime of smuggling phenomenon, as one of … as the growing phenomenon of classical and organized crime. The aim of this work is that through the observation of case …
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Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies have focused on men and have given little attention to the characteristics of their partner and events related to changes in offending. In this article, we use Norwegian registry...
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Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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