We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large … candidate’s party barely lost the elections. Challenger cartels in the drug market leapfrog incumbent drug cartels when entering …

in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …

in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …

environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I find that in parts of a city where drug penalties were weakened, there … is a 13% decrease in drug arrests within a year; there is no displacement of non-drug offenses and majority black …

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 …

relationship among crime, deterrence and drug use. The results provide strong support for the deterrence hypothesis. Murders … police force generates a decrease in robberies and burglaries. No significant relationship exists between drug use and the … violent crimes of felonious assault and murder, or between drug use and motor vehicle thefts. On the other hand, there is a …

relationship among crime, deterrence and drug use. The results provide strong support for the deterrence hypothesis. Murders … police force generates a decrease in robberies and burglaries. No significant relationship exists between drug use and the … violent crimes of felonious assault and murder, or between drug use and motor vehicle thefts. On the other hand, there is a …

Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the … link between crime and growth based on the theory of rational choice and empirical data. Exogenous and endogenous growth …

This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The … applied econometric methodology compares Portuguese drug-related variables with the ones extracted from a convex combination … in the number of heroine and cocaine seizures, a decrease in the number of offenses and drug-related deaths, and a …