India. A dominant narrative is that women-led councils tend to favour policiesrelevant to their own gender. However, given … the deep-rooted gender bias in India, the feasibility ofwomen leaders to influence decisions by themselves would likely be … literature, such as water and crime against women, to show that women-led councils perform better on these outcomes only when …

right-to-carry (RTC) licensing and crime rates. It covers the most important publications of both scholars and reviews the …

Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic …, the costs of crime represent at least 3.5% of the regional gross domestic product, twice as much as in developed countries …. Despite the magnitude of the security problem, the region is lagging in the production of rigorous research on crime and the …