masses. After some small property crimes, they thought that a "perfect" major crime, committed without emotion or detection …

important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity … education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a …

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including …

-administrative divisions in Colombia during the period 2000-2011. Specifically, the study seeks to determine whether the reduction of crime was …This study considers the effect that judicial and police efficiency exercised on crime in 25 of the 33 political … the result of increases in the cost of crime as a result of the strengthening of the country’s security forces, especially …

Evidence has repeatedly shown that disparities in crime sentences can be attributed to certain variables considered … topic by focusing on disparities in homicide sentences using data from over 9000 homicide cases tried in Colombia from 1980 …'s sentence and if the sentence should be above the legal minimum set for the severity of the crime according to the criminal code …

This study assesses whether mental health interventions can improve academic outcomes for justice-involved youth. Only … a limited number of studies have linked justice policies to outcomes beyond crime, particularly education, which carries … under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls …