this paper, I study whether the Dark Web has an impact on street crime, a common side effect of traditional drug trade. To …The Dark Web has changed the way drugs are traded globally by shifting trade away from the streets and onto the web. In … identify a causal effect, I use daily data from the US and exploit unexpected shutdowns of large online drug trading platforms …

, cultural, and social drivers informing the design and implementation of Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’ - a set of state policies … centered on punitive and militarized responses towards the drug problem - during the first and second halves of the twentieth …-century. Second, to analyze how the longer history of Mexico’s war on drugs can help us better understand this country’s enduring …

for drug offenses. Unlike other states, California has had a policy of mandatory diversion to drug treatment for non …-violent drug offenders since mid-2001 (Proposition 36). Using a rich dataset including current and prior criminal charges from 1995 … through 2005 in California, we examine whether disparities in court dispositions to prison and drug treatment between White …

THE “WAR ON DRUGS” that began in the 1980s contributed to an unprecedented expansion in the U.S. inmate population …. Prison and jail admissions more than tripled in the ensuing years (Harrison & Karberg, 2003), with drug violations accounting … inmate population (Belenko & Peugh, 1998; Harrison & Beck, 2002). As of 2001, drug offenders comprised more than half (57 …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime …