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negative impacts generated by these events. In particular there is limited understanding about the impact of crime on hosting … cities. Increased crime can be a long term impact that persists after the event. This paper investigates the relation, if any …, between the fact that an Italian city hosted the 1990 World Football Cup and its crime rates. Analysis aims at better …
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discrimination leads to an increase in crime rates under plausible conditions. This suggests that societies in which membership to … crime rates. Attempting to fix the negative impacts of statistical discrimination through policies that reduce the … visibility of criminal records increases crime rates further. Moreover, such policies cause a greater negative effect for law …
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Crime and the durability of goods are strongly connected issues. However, surprisingly, they have been studied … separately. This paper explores the relationship between the production of durable goods and crime from a theoretical perspective … and draws important conclusions for both topics. Crime affects the consumer and producer surplus and thus the behavior of …
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The long history of suicide as a criminal offence still has a significant contemporary effect on how it is perceived, conceptualised and adjudged. This is particularly the case within countries where suicide is largely determined within a coronial system, such as Australia, the UK and the US....
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We examine the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) on crime treating the introduction of MML as a quasi …-experiment and using three different data sources. First, using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, we find that violent crimes such … drug-related violent crime and drug trafficking. Extrapolating, our results indicate that decriminalization of the …
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increases the allure of therapeutic justice. Happiness should also contribute to lower crime rates. The article concludes that …
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crime scenes in the U.S. Of these guns, more than 43 thousand were originally sold in a different state from which they were … recovered. What factors may explain the interstate movement of these crime guns? This paper uses the well-known gravity model of …
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. We have demonstrated that fiscal policies affect crime through government spending. Conversely, the effect of monetary … policy, especially inflation, on crime depends on the separability of the utility function …
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The relationship of crime and minority groups within society is examined. Issues discussed include the stresses of … migration and adaptation; the involvement of migrants in organised crime; ethnic crime rates; the alleged prevalence of wife … have been imprisoned. Although the crime rates for migrants are low, the author warns of possible hidden crime such as wife …
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The increasingly popular practice of pre-employment checking for criminal convictions is an issue of concern given the large number of individuals who have some form of criminal record. This article provides an overview and comparison of Australian and New Zealand anti-discrimination, privacy...
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