We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification …, we find that the death of a more central co-offender leads to a larger reduction in aggregate crime. We also provide … set of offenders, altering their perceptions of the probability of being convicted and consequently affecting their …

planned electricity outages and crime rates, leveraging a geographic discontinuity in outage duration due to differences in … electricity suppliers within the City of Cape Town, South Africa. We compare crime trends in areas served by the municipal grid … severe. We find that 10 hours per month more outages lead to an increase of 2.6 percent or eight more crime incidents. The …

that proactive policing can cause an increase in crime. We re-evaluate this claim and point out several fatal weaknesses in … largest reductions in major crime. The authors' analysis constitutes a quintessential fallacy in statistical reasoning, a …