We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical … the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …, social capital, and police intensity consistent with our theoretical predictions. Based on our analysis, we derive a range of …

Although women's police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … been done. This paper estimates the effects of women's police stations in Brazil on female homicides, as a measure of the … attributed to aggression by an intimate partner, female homicides appear the best available proxy for severe domestic violence …

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … use high-frequency, real-time data from Los Angeles on 911 calls, crime incidents, arrests, and calls to a DV hotline to …-opening. DV calls to police and to the hotline increased during the initial shutdown, but DV crimes decreased, as did arrests for …

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 … lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reflect a low reporting … daily data on DV crimes recorded by the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), we propose a method for generating a …

28% of all drug incidents in the country. São Paulo is also the state with the largest police force-about 100 …,000 policiais militares [ostensible police officers] and 30,000 policiais civis [investigative police officers]. São Paulo law … amount of drugs seized. By comparing those data, we show police resources are largely used in incidents that have no impact …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical … the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …, social capital, and police intensity consistent with our theoretical predictions. Based on our analysis, we derive a range of …