Most estimates of the cost of crime focus on victims. Yet it is plausible that an even larger cost of crime occurs via … its indirect impact on the mental wellbeing of non-victims. To test how crime affects individuals' mental outcomes, we … exploit detailed panel data on mental wellbeing, allowing us to observe the relationship between changes in crime in a local …

This paper examines the association between trust and community involvement with fear of crime. Fear of crime is … neighborhood crime prevention program does not affect the fear of crime. Thus the evidence challenges the general idea that … measured by three typical perception measures: neighborhood security; walking alone in the dark; and the risk of becoming a …

The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides … Negative Binomial regressions. Three main findings are established. First , security officers and the police significantly … thresholds suggest that a maximum deployment of security officers and the police is required in order to completely cancel out …

In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … revolutionary effects of globalization and its new challenges to world security and stability. The challenges to security now come …. Emphasis is focused on (a) how the field is changing, and the relation between new security challenges and required new …

changes in troop levels on violent crime in El Paso County, where Fort Carson is located. Our results suggest that never … relationship between the number of previously deployed units and violent crime are generally small and statistically insignificant …. We conclude that soldiers returning from combat do not represent a special threat to public safety. …

criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group property crime is reduced for up to five …