influence adolescents' decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

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 paper evaluates the impact of quality of education on violence and crime using student performances on a mandatory …

This study presents an empirical and quantitative study of the causes of variation in the crime rate at the municipal … from 1918 to 1935. The result was a strong negative relationship between crime rates in 1962 and the allocation of justice …

employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased … opportunities for legitimate reemployment and access to consumption credit to investigate the mechanisms underlying this job loss-crime … after job losses. Greater exposure to expansions in consumption credit also lowers the job loss-crime elasticity …

spatial persistence in the municipal homicide rate in Colombia, as a result of shock increases in the displaced population and … Colombia …

This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … Bogota Colombia during the pandemic. Under the policy, men were allowed out on odd days and women on even days, and we … investigate whether overall crime rates differed and whether crime was lower on women-only days. We compare crime in Bogota to …

Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …