Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations … effects arise from incapacitation, crime displacement, or changes in employment of local police forces. Our results suggest …

crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury …

simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing anti-social behavior such as crime. Indeed, recent evidence shows … that participation in active labor market programs reduces crime among unemployed young men. The existence of such effects …

set by the world market. We argue that shocks in metal prices represent a quasi-experimental variation in gains from crime …

. One question to better understand the costs and benefits of these laws is: to what extent do MDA laws displace crime from …-school crime by studying how MDA laws affect crimes committed in U.S. public high schools. The analysis is conducted using a … in the MDA to 18 significantly increases in-school crime by 0.434 incidences per 1,000 students or a 6.2% increase …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs{crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs{crime channel within …

deterrence" to crime: the threat of future adverse effects on employment payoffs when caught committing crimes reduces the … dynamic deterrence will be less effective in fighting crime. This suggests that prevention is more powerful than redemption …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …