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 …

effects of more police officers on crime rates. We add to the relatively thin literature on the impacts of clearance rates … of police officers will not necessarily result in lower crime rates …The Becker (1968) model of crime establishes the importance of the probability of apprehension as a key factor in a …

'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 …

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 …

serious crime more than white arrestees. The racial discrepancy is greater for agencies serving cities with higher per …

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

to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States ….g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian … hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory …