This article studies the effects of violent crime (measured through homicide rates) on market prices and size using … plant-level panel data in Colombia. To estimate causal effects, I exploit reductions in violence driven by increases in …

This paper investigates the distribution of crime and violence across victims in Colombia. Property and violent crimes … property crime: they are more likely to be victimized, to modify their behavior for fear of crime, to feel unsafe in their … cities, and to invest in crime avoidance. Homicides are borne disproportionately by the poor and kidnappings by the rich …

-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 …

Colombian copyright law does not expressly incorporate plagiarism as a crime. Nonetheless, Colombian courts have … even violate other human rights, which is the case in Colombia. First, this Article describes the special protection of …

This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during … the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …

We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … least one crime report. In the following periods, crimes decrease both in the place of the arrests and the surroundings …. With many treated grids and many places exposed to spillovers, these effects add up. On aggregate, the crime reduction …

identifies with relative to the out-group. The current study assesses whether these findings extend to victims of crime in urban … areas. We conduct two artefactual field experiments in Bogotá (Colombia) to address these issues. Our methodological …

This article explores women community leaders’ relationship and interactions with criminal groups in Medellín, Colombia … and crime, but also they are part of women community leaders’ development of agency. We aim to go beyond the ‘passive …

Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an … organization. Going beyond that, I argue that organized crime interferes in the material practices of the urban poor, turning to …