Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, this kind of anti-crime measure might also induce …

crime. Exploiting data from a randomized controlled trial and administrative data from the staggered nationwide program roll … experienced an increase in violent crime. Examining possible mechanisms, our analysis reveals that the program resulted in an … violent crime. In contrast, we show that the surge in violent crime is neither related to PKH increasing the (monetary and non …

reductions in crime almost two decades later when the cohorts exposed to legalized abortion reach their peak crime years. Joyce … between abortion and crime is a direct consequence of his decision to focus exclusively on the six-year period 1985-90 without …), the evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that legalized abortion reduces crime. We also show that our original …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …

and inequality, crime rates, suicide rates, and test scores. These results are robust to the use of regression …

salaries, state revenue, incarceration rates, execution rates, pre-tax incomes and inequality, crime rates, suicide rates, and …

legalizing abortion contributes to lower crime rates. We provide an advance on previous work by focusing on the impact of … possible endogeneity of effective abortion rates with respect to crime. Our use of U.K. data allows us to exploit regional …, we are able to replicate the negative association between abortion rates and reported crime found by Donohue and Levitt …

Background: Crime imposes significant costs and negative consequences to people and society globally. Understanding the … cost of crime is important to conduct economic evaluations of existing crime prevention interventions and to allocate … resources by prioritizing crime prevention efforts relative to the severity of the crime category. Aim: The aim of this review …