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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation
Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
than before, reaching 18 years of age, in which case they are less likely to recidivate in any type of crime. The change in …
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Goals Met or Just Empty Promises? First Version of the Democratic Security Policy in Colombia
Gerson Javier Pérez V. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2012
fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security … strategies changed, and as a result, the effects on crime rates are mostly large, negative and significant. There was a clear …
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The Democratic Security Policy: Socioeconomic Effects in the Rural Areas, 2002-2006
Gerson Javier Pérez V. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2012
This paper measures the impact of strengthening the security policy on the rural labour market in Colombia by exploiting the structural change in the number of rural seizures. The new policy produced dissimilar effects across gender, age-groups, and types of occupation. For adults, especially...
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Police Reform, Training and Crime: Experimental evidence from Colombia´s Plan Cuadrantes
García, Juan Felipe; Mejia, Daniel; Ortega, Daniel - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
contact, and holds officers accountable for crime in their assigned area. The plan warranted a comprehensive training program … reduction in several types of crime attributable to the training program, ranging from around .13 of a standard deviation for … homicides to .18 of a standard deviation for brawls. These impacts are driven by very large effects in high crime areas and very …
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The Pharmacological Channel Revisited: Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogotá
Mello, Joao De; Mejía, Daniel; Suárez, Lucía - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
Our goal in this paper is twofold: First, evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales … in Bogotá; and second, quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. Using … effects on several crime categories. We find that the restriction reduced deaths and injuries in car accidents and batteries …
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Class, state and crime : on the theory and practice of criminal justice
Quinney, Richard - 1977 - 2. print
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Rollenkonforme Verbrechen unter einem totalitären System : mit einer Einführung von Ferdinand A. Hermes
Uthoff, Hayo - 1975
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Shoplifting in Retail Clothing Outlets
Lin, Binshan; Hastings, Deborah Ann; Martin, Christopher - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 22 (1994) 7, pp. 24-29
Presents a report of the study about shoplifting problems in retail clothing outlets which was carried out during the autumn of 1993, with the primary purpose of examining managers′ attitudes towards shoplifting in some detail and the secondary purpose of identifying coping strategies that can...
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Retail security: a survey of methods and management in Dundee
Pretious, Mike; Stewart, Robert; Logan, David - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 23 (1995) 9, pp. 28-35
forms part of ongoing research into retail crime in this city being undertaken on a joint basis by the University of Abertay …
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