who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …

between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … with respect to the method of estimation. Whereas conventional mean regressions do not show any significant effect (which …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …

reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best … economic shocks on crime, this chapter proposes a simple conceptual framework to understand this nuanced relationship. We posit … puzzles as well as areas where additional research on the relationship between economic shocks and crime would be welcome. …