How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a … leading wholesale distribution firm in El Salvador, we document new evidence on the determinants of extortion payments and the … economic costs of extortion via pass-through. We exploit a 2016 non-aggression pact between gangs to examine how collusion …

How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a … of extortion payments and the effects of extortion on firms and consumers. We exploit a 2016 non-aggression pact between … gangs to examine how collusion affects extortion in areas where gangs previously competed. While the non-aggression pact led …

We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some … control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches … non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes …

While safety crimes far outweigh crimes of conventional violence, British criminology continues to operate with rather …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …

incentives and deter crime in the long run. …