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El impacto de la intensidad del conflicto armado colombiano sobre el desarrollo social no ha sido cuantificado rigurosamente. Este documento busca avanzar en el análisis de los efectos sociales de la actividad armada ilegal en los últimos años, a través del examen de la evolución de...
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This article traces the history of Minnesota's anti-death penalty movement and the 1889 Minnesota law - dubbed by contemporaries as the "midnight assassination law" - requiring private, nighttime executions. That law, authored by Minnesota legislator John Day Smith, restricted the number of...
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environment, and crime. We then report the results of two empirical studies on these relationships. First, we conducted a study of … the effect of zoning on crime using 205 blocks selected in eight different relatively high crime neighborhoods in Los …- and residential-zoned areas are associated with lower crime than are commercial-only zoned areas. Second, we matched …
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public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors … overall crime between 4.9% and 5.7%, depending on the specification. Our results further suggest that more accountable mayors … prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results …
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's perspective, and therefore led the Police to increase its activity against crime … arrestees from the Police to the Prison Authority. Using the staggered introduction of the reform in different regions of the …. These findings are consistent with the idea that the reform externalized the cost of housing arrestees from the Police …
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Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of … the extra police services on crime. Extra police provided by the university generate approximately 45-60 percent fewer … extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the …
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serious crime more than white arrestees. The racial discrepancy is greater for agencies serving cities with higher per …
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how the Equitable Sharing rule influenced crime and police incentives by taking advantage of pre-existing differences in …In 1984 the federal government passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. The act included language that permitted … state level civil forfeiture law and the timing of the CCCA. We find that after the CCCA, crime fell upwards of 13.4 percent …
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a crime is greater than the expected cost associated with it. The size of the police force increases the expected cost … effect of police on crime and results are not uniform. This paper is an attempt to test the same in Indian context (for … selected crime categories). It is found that police force acts as a deterrent for violent crimes (Murder, Kidnapping & Murder …
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that “[strip clubs and gentleman’s clubs] decrease sex crime by 13% per police precinct one week after the opening.” We … document that the police had an unfounded belief in criminal activity and the person was in fact innocent of any crime. In …Ciacci & Sviatschi’s (2021) “The Effect of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City …
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