notify local law enforcement about their current domicile and any change of address. Since then, sex offenders residencies … homes not located near registered sex offenders. These results prove robust over numerous specifications and modeling …

variation in the threat of crime within small homogenous groupings of homes, and we use the timing of sex offenders' arrivals to … offenders or view living near an offender as having costs exclusive of crime risk … individuals value living in close proximity to a convicted criminal. We use the exact location of sex offenders to exploit …

sex offender’s residence. We find large negative externality effects on a property’s price and liquidity, employing …

Recent developments in law enforcement and the judiciary reveal the ongoing interconnections between religion, crime …, and punishment. In recent months, federal investigators have taken an interest in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania and …-of-its-kind inquiry into the Church poses new challenges for church leaders, particularly because it may place some of its clergy in …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … rates of recidivism among ex-convicts is due to selection, and not a consequence of the experience of being in prison …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …