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deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …
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environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …
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public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors … overall crime between 4.9% and 5.7%, depending on the specification. Our results further suggest that more accountable mayors …
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This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … heterogeneities in the results we find that black are more sensitive to crime rate changes even living in similar neighborhoods in …
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Police agencies devote vast resources to minimising the time that it takes them to attend the scene of a crime. Despite … likelihood of clearing the crime. We find stronger effects for thefts than for violent offenses, although the effects are large … for every type of crime. We find suggestive evidence in support of two mechanisms: the likelihood of an immediate arrest …
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This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … heterogeneities in the results we find that black are more sensitive to crime rate changes even living in similar neighborhoods in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014256
deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923235
penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …
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's perspective, and therefore led the Police to increase its activity against crime …
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