local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …

local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount. Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …

their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking …

, we find that the death of a more central co-offender leads to a larger reduction in aggregate crime. We also provide … more effective strategies for crime prevention. …

Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide … practical guidance for the design of crime prevention policies. To illustrate these points, we first present a selective review …

We investigate the effects of civic norms and associational networks on crime rates. Civic norms may attach guilt and … minimise the first two problems. To tackle the last two ones, we use report-rate adjusted crime rates and estimate a spatial …