significance. In other words, crime imposes the costs of prosecution and punishment on the citizens and country, which influences …Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the …

order” in its Criminal Finances Act 2017. On 7-8 November 2017, London hosted the Fifth OECD Forum on Tax and Crime. Against … crime, this working paper researches the role that tax laws and tax authorities play in either helping or hindering …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount. Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be …

This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional … police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …