equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and … violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … incidence of criminal violence. The data come from the 1989 and 1992 International Victimization Surveys. The sample used in …

by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …-related calls for police service. Effects are larger in areas with a high proportion of renters. These effects for domestic violence …

Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether … media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to … attendance appears to reduce alcohol consumption. Like the laboratory experiments, we find indirect evidence that movie violence …

high temperatures increase intense violence among the incarcerated. Days with unsafe heat index levels shift both the … intensive and extensive margins of violence, raising daily violent interactions by 20%, and the probability of any violence by … 18%. Our setting cleanly identifies the effect of heat on violence, and highlights previously unobserved social costs of …