"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 … attendance appears to reduce alcohol consumption. Like the laboratory experiments, we find indirect evidence that movie violence …

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …