The most important aspect of American federalism embodied in the Constitution is the constitutional facilitation of a … Among the Several States Clause). Commercial activity is favored in our system of free trade federalism emboldened and … arguments that national policy preventing states from acting is excessive. Not everything about federalism is about leaving …

Federalism and international trade regulation are popular topics in the legal literature, but the intersection of these … of U.S. and Canadian federalism, and by considering the effect of these countries' federal structures on their …

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 …

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 provides evidence of the causal effect of church attendance on petty crime by using quasi-random variation …

might simply induce a "fear of crime." This study finds evidence for both use and misinterpretation of the publicly …

The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non … crime. Also the socio-economic background in terms of unemployment, poverty, and inequality proves significant for both … property and violent crime. Whereas local inequality only shows an effect on crime committed by resident offenders, crime …