Adda, Jérôme; McConnell, Brendon; Rasul, Imran - In: Journal of Political Economy 122 (2014) 5, pp. 1130-1130
We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. We find that depenalization policy caused the police to reallocate effort toward nondrug crime. Despite the overall fall in crime...