known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be …

likelihood of future criminal justice involvement fell, with no apparent increase in local crime rates. …

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. …

the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …. This paper studies the roles of prices, policing and policy in explaining these crime dynamics. The empirical analysis … shows sizeable and significant metal crime-price elasticities, in line with the idea that changing economic returns do shape …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board. -- status concerns ; street crime ; subcultures ; penalties ; zero …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …