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Immigrants as victims of crime and safety efforts in São Paulo

Konta, Ryohei - 2026

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Immigration and crimes against natives : the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany

Huang, Yue; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

During the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees arrived in Germany, raising widespread concern that crimes against natives would rise. Using novel county-level data, we study this question empirically in first-difference and 2SLS regressions. Our results do not support the view that...

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Immigration and crimes against natives : the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany

Huang, Yue; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2019

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Immigration and crimes against natives : the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany

Huang, Yue; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2019

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Immigration and Crimes Against Natives : The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany

Huang, Yue - 2019

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Intergenerational transmission of victimization

Bhalotra, Sonia; Daysal, N. Meltem; Jensen, Mathias … - 2026

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization. Sons are twice as likely, and daughters three times as likely, to be victimized if a parent was victimized, with stronger associations if the mother was the victim....

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Intergenerational transmission of victimization

Bhalotra, Sonia; Daysal, N. Meltem; Jensen, Mathias … - 2026

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Intergenerational transmission of victimization

Bhalotra, Sonia; Daysal, N. Meltem; Jensen, Mathias … - 2026

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Intergenerational transmission of victimization

Bhalotra, Sonia; Daysal, N. Meltem; Jensen, Mathias … - 2026

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Intergenerational transmission of victimization

Bhalotra, Sonia; Daysal, N. Meltem; Jensen, Mathias … - 2026

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Crime and prices : evidence from thefts of expensive precious metal

Foong, Gerald; Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo - 2026

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Crime and prices : evidence from thefts of expensive precious metal

Foong, Gerald; Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo - 2025

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Crime and prices : evidence from thefts of expensive precious metal

Foong, Gerald; Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo - 2025

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Co-benefits of substance abuse regulation on temperature and violent crime

Pavanello, Filippo; Zappalà, Guglielmo - 2026

Higher temperatures can increase substance abuse and exacerbate its physiological effects on the human body, raising the risk of violent behavior. Using administrative crime records and daily temperatures in the United States between 1991 and 2023, we show that two public policies regulating...

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Lending to vulnerable households and consumption : evidence from Korea

Lee, Jieun; Shim, Ilhyock - 2026

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Birthright citizenship and youth crime

Andres, Leander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Dahl, Gordon B.; … - 2026 - This version: January 12, 2026

This paper studies the impact of birthright citizenship on youth crime. We leverage a reform which automatically granted birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born in Germany after January 1, 2000 and administrative crime data from three federal states. Immigrant youth who...

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Birthright citizenship and youth crime

Andres, Leander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Dahl, Gordon B.; … - 2026

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Identifying common trend determinants in panel data

Lee, Yoonseok; Phillips, Peter C. B.; Song, Suyong; … - 2026

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Burning rage : how heat shapes gender-based violence

Aina, Carmen; Parisi, Lavinia; Picchio, Matteo - 2026

Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a critical threat to women's safety and equality worldwide, yet the role of climate and environmental stressors in shaping violence against women remains underexplored, particularly in developed countries. This study identifies the causal impact of short-run...

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Burning rage : how heat shapes gender-based violence

Aina, Carmen; Parisi, Lavinia; Picchio, Matteo - 2026

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Women in power : parliamentary action, social attitudes, and gender-based crime

Do, Quynh; Mahmood, Rafat; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; … - 2026

This paper studies the causal impact of female political representation on legislative behavior, social attitudes, and gender-based crime. Using a regression discontinuity design based on close mixed-gender electoral contests, we compare electorates that narrowly elected female versus male...

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The intergenerational costs of crime : evidence from maternal victimization in Brazil

Menezes, Lívia; Koppensteiner, Martin - 2026

We study the causal effect of maternal criminal victimization on child health using linked police reports and birth records from Brazil. Focusing on robbery and theft - everyday crimes not involving physical injury - we show that victimization during pregnancy increases low birthweight by 6.9...

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

This paper studies how and why anti-Irish sentiment in 19th century England spills over onto jury decisions at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court. We classify the (perceived) ethnicity of courtroom participants according to whether they have distinctly Irish or English surnames based...

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Standing in prisoners' shoes : a randomized trial on how incarceration shapes criminal justice preferences

Arman, Arto; Beerli, Andreas; Henkel, Aljosha; … - 2026

We study how incarceration experience shapes preferences for criminal justice policies. In collaboration with a newly opened prison, we conducted a randomized field experiment that o!ered citizens the opportunity to experience up to two days of incarceration, closely replicating the real-life...

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Standing in prisoners' shoes : a randomized trial on how incarceration shapes criminal justice preferences

Arman, Arto; Beerli, Andreas; Henkel, Aljosha; … - 2026

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An unholy alliance : the relationship between organized crime and corruption in Italy

Chiariello, Valentina; Dincer, Oguzhan - 2026

We investigate the long-run relationship between organized crime and corruption using data from 20 Italian regions over 30 years. As Rose-Ackerman and Palifka (2018) argue, corruption and organized crime often go together. Our study contributes to the literature in several ways in terms of...

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Gangs of London and public housing

Disney, Richard; Kirchmaier, Tom; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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The Hidden Costs of Violence : How Crime Shapes Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America

De Hoop, Jacobus Joost; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2026

This study explores the gendered impacts of violent crime on economic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean. While both men and women experience violent crime, their exposure to violent crime and the consequences they suffer differ. Women are disproportionately affected by intimate...

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The Mafia–cancer nexus : evidence from the land of fires

Beraldo, Sergio; Collaro, Michela; Leone, Fabio; … - 2026

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Criminal career trajectories

Kirchmaier, Tom; Matter, Daniel; Schirmer, Miriam - 2026

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Private and public security : theory and evidence from the UK

Mongrain, Steeve; Pazzona, Matteo - 2026

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Cannabis use largely stable following partial legalization : cocaine use has been on the rise for several years

Bindler, Anna; Stoica, Andreea-Maria - 2026

Two years after the partial legalization of cannabis, this Weekly Report examines current developments in the German cannabis and other illicit drug markets. The analysis is based on police crime statistics, survey data, wastewater data, and price information. The number of recorded cannabis and...

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school

Britton, Jack; Ridpath, Nick; Villa, Carmen; Waltmann, Ben - 2026

We evaluate the Education Maintenance Allowance, a large conditional cash transfer scheme that paid low-income teenagers in England to remain in education beyond age 16. Using the staggered national roll-out of the programme and linked administrative data tracking education, earnings, welfare...

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Organized crime, hidden pollution, and long-run health costs

Cipullo, Davide; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2026

We study the long-run health effects of illegal toxic waste disposal conducted by organized crime in Italy. We exploit quasi-random variation in historical wind direction around contaminated sites combined with a difference-in-differences design. Using administrative data on cancer deaths...

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Regulating the crypto-laundering chain : a comparative study of scam compounds and money mule mechanisms within criminal networks

Arnone, Gioia - 2026

This paper examines how scam compounds, money mules and crypto-assets operate as interdependent elements of contemporary money-laundering chains. It assesses whether existing anti-money laundering (AML) and crypto-asset regulatory frameworks are capable of disrupting these chains holistically,...

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Community engagement and public safety : evidence from crime enforcement targeting immigrants

Gonçalves, Felipe; Jácome, Elisa; Weisburst, Emily - 2026

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Sentencing severity, victim behaviour, and the prevention of domestic violence

Costa, Rui; Masi, Olivia; Ribeiro, Beatriz; Sandi, Matteo - 2026

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Catching neutralizations : identifying neutralization techniques for white-collar crimes in offender statements

Hoekstra, Manon; Huisman, Wim; Schee, Britt van der - 2026

Among white-collar offenders, processes of neutralization appear to play a crucial role in sustaining both their moral self-concept and their social standing and subsequently play a role in commiting violations of the law. This article explores methods for collecting information on the...

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Strategic choices in money laundering : smurfing, layering, and financial over-diversification

Contreras, Alfredo; Villa, Edgar - 2026

Money laundering enables criminal organizations to integrate illicit funds into the legal economy while evading detection, posing significant challenges for regulators and policymakers. We develop a formal framework to examine criminal organizations' choice between two money laundering methods....

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Cybercrime and socioeconomic realities : perpetrators’ perspectives from Ghana

Barnor, Jonathan Nii; Ansong, Eric; Boateng, Sheena Lovia - 2026

This study, grounded in Rational Choice Theory, explores the strategies and decision-making processes of online romance fraud perpetrators in Ghana. Using a qualitative approach, thirteen individuals involved in such fraud were interviewed through purposive and snowball sampling. Data were...

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Examining economic theory's influence on criminology : imperialism and disciplinary boundaries

Sigrist, Felipe Coelho; Marin, Solange Regina - 2026

The paper aims to investigate the imperialistic status of Economic Theory of Crime. Among economists, ETC is often regarded as a successful case of imperialism toward criminology, but criminologists do not share this perception. Through a documental analysis and literature review, we select two...

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The scammer’s playbook : exploring the psychological techniques and tactics used by scammers in the social engineering of cryptocurrency fraud

Dulisse, Brandon; Fitch, Chivon; Connealy, Nathan T. - 2026

Cryptocurrency fraud represents one of the fastest-growing financial crimes worldwide, yet the psychological mechanisms that enable these scams remain understudied. Drawing on 282 verified victim narratives from California and Wisconsin state crypto scam trackers (2023-2024), this study...

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

Following reunification, anti-foreigner crimes rose sharply in the former GDR. Using countylevel data for the early 1990s, we study if regional access to Western TV, i.e. non-socialist media, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall had an impact on regional levels of serious antiforeigner crime...

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

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Policing police violence : sheriff-coroners and the underreporting of police killings

Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén - 2026

In the United States, law enforcement kills three people per day, yet official statistics record only half. Using detailed geo-location of police killings and exploiting spatial and temporal discontinuities in medicolegal death-investigation systems across counties from 2000-2024, I show that...

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From custody to community : post-release supervision and re-offending

Gehrsitz, Markus; Grant, Sam; McIntyre, Stuart - 2026

Many criminal offenders are managed in the community. We combine a natural experiment with administrative data from England and Wales to assess a key community correctional policy: post-release supervision. We find that supervision reduces re-offending in the first four weeks after prison...

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Does school social work work? : the impact of school social workers on youth crime and education

Drescher, Katharina - 2026

I study the impact of school social workers on youth crime and education. As a political reaction to a school rampage, a large German state introduced funding for school social workers, resulting in a strong increase in their numbers. Using the spatial and temporal variation in its...

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Information shocks, attitudes toward immigrants, and hate crime

Bradley, Jake; Albornoz, Facundo; Sonderegger, Silvia; … - 2026

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Information shocks, attitudes toward immigrants, and hate crime

Bradley, Jake; Albornoz, Facundo; Sonderegger, Silvia; … - 2026

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Latin America's persistent disorder: meritocracy without mobility

Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2026

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Diagnosing ADHD in prison : the effects on inmates and their families

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2026

Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is highly prevalent amongst criminal justice populations: ADHD diagnoses and medication are upwards of five times more likely for individuals who have a Swedish prison record than those without. We merge Swedish prison registers (with detailed...

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Diagnosing ADHD in prison : the effects on inmates and their families

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2026

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Learning about police bias : prosecutors and police before and after body-worn cameras

Harrington, Emma; Shaffer, Hannah - 2026

Decision-makers often rely on earlier actors but fail to correct for their biases. We model and measure two mechanisms: underestimating upstream bias and treating subjective information as ground truth. We link an original survey of 203 North Carolina prosecutors to their 505,787 cases....

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Women behind bars : do single-gender prisons reduce recidivism?

Calamunci, Francesca; Daniele, Gianmarco; Mastrobuoni, … - 2026

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Women behind bars : do single-gender prisons reduce recidivism?

Calamunci, Francesca; Daniele, Gianmarco; Mastrobuoni, … - 2025

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Revisiting the impact of foreign direct investment on crime : a global analysis

Chen, Yuan; Liang, Zheming; Wang, Ciqiao; Xu, Zhengle - 2026

Drawing upon extensive literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers, we hypothesize that FDI inflow represents a double-edged sword with respect to crime in host countries. On one hand, FDI can contribute to economic growth and social well-being by infusing capital and knowledge into...

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Protecting the vulnerable : how migrant regularization reduces crime and empowers women

Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V.; Bahar, Dany; … - 2026

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Right-wing protest and hate crimes

Sardoschau, Sulin; Casanueva-Artís, Annalí - 2026

This paper examines the impact of right-wing populist mobilization on anti-minority violence across 10,000 German municipalities between 2015 and 2019. Exploiting variation in weather conditions on scheduled protest days, we show that right-wing protests held on pleasant days increase their...

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To catch a thief : endogenous policing and choice of location by criminals

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Cabrales, Antonio; Das, Kaustav - 2026

This paper develops a tractable model of offender location choice and police resource allocation across multiple areas. Individuals differ in the cost of apprehension and choose whether to commit crime and, if so, where. Each area contains a fixed value of criminal opportunities, so offenders...

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Firearms laws and violence against women

McTague, Alyvia - 2026 - Version March 2026

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Benefits of early integration§dbirthright citizenship and youth crime

Albrecht, Clara; Andres, Leander; Schüller, Simone; … - 2026

Despite making up a relatively low share of the population, adolescents account for a disproportionately high incidence of registered offenders. An innovative empirical approach finds causal evidence that a reform of citizenship law has a significant impact on reducing youth crime. Birthright...

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Financial crime and the office of the European public prosecutor : protecting EU financial interests in a new institutional landscape

2026 - 1st edition

"This book examines the realities of the functioning of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) along with the actual cooperation with other stakeholders in the EU and in the Member States. The protection of financial interests of the European Union is a Treaty obligation bearing equally...

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Reasons for commiting economic crimes : a South African study

Swanepoel, Andries Petrus - 2025

Purpose The occurrence of economic crimes is a serious challenge to business leaders, government officials and private individuals in South Africa. The objective of this research was to determine the main reasons for committing economic crimes in South Africa. Design/Methodology/Approach Primary...

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Disentangling and demystifying converging crimes and illegal wildlife trade in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Canada

Anagnostou, Michelle; Doberstein, Brent; Armitage, Derek; … - 2025

Illegal wildlife trade is increasingly reported as intersecting with other serious crimes, a phenomenon labelled "crime convergence". However, there is limited empirical research on the extent and nature of these linkages. The present study seeks to understand what criminal activities converge...

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Fraud and complexity theory : moving beyond the fraud triangle towards a new theoretical framework

Freeman, Christopher - 2025

Fraud research has long been dominated by micro-level theories-most notably the fraud triangle-that focus on individual motivation while neglecting the wider systems that shape and sustain fraudulent behaviour. This paper introduces a conceptual framework that bridges that gap by integrating...

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The economic impact of DeFi crime events on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)

Kitzler, Stefan; Paquet-Clouston, Masarah; Haslhofer, … - 2025

The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced over $10 billion in direct losses due to crime events. Beyond these immediate losses, such events often trigger broader market reactions, including price declines, trading activity changes, and reductions in market capitalization....

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