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...

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 offered citizens the opportunity to experience up to two days of incarceration, closely replicating the real-life...

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...

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...

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 on...

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...

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...

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...

This article develops and tests a theory of criminal governance, examining how drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) use bribery and violence to dominate resource-rich regions and counter state interventions. The study draws on data on over 500 political assassinations and 156 lethal attacks on...

Mass shootings in the U.S. have been at the center of the public crisis debate for a long time. Combining information on mass shootings with background check reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, this study applies mass shootings as exogenous shocks and reveals that the demand for...

Crime affects social stability and people's safety, and directly increases the cost of urban development. Existing literature shows that income distribution affects crime, but it mainly focuses on the effect of income inequality and poverty, with scant evidence addressing the impact of income...

This study investigates spatial crime patterns in the municipality of Matelândia, Brazil, with the aim of optimizing the placement of police facilities through an enhanced clustering approach. We use an unsupervised machine learning technique, and we introduce a refined k-Means methodology...

This conceptual paper investigates the role of art experts and appraisers in white-collar crime through the lens of convenience theory. As gatekeepers of authenticity, provenance, and valuation, art appraisers hold significant power in shaping market outcomes. Yet, the opacity of appraisal...

This study investigates the prevalence and patterns of irregular deposit practices and legal breaches concerning tenancy deposits in Norway's private rental housing sector. Irregularities in handling tenancy deposits can adversely affect tenants, particularly vulnerable groups like students and...

This case analysis uses a crime script to understand the circumvention of sanctions on the supply of goods from the Netherlands to Russia. By analysing three court cases, news articles and five interviews with law enforcement officers, a crime script is created. Based on this crime script,...

Fraud in accounting and finance poses a persistent threat to organizational integrity and economic stability, necessitating robust theoretical frameworks for effective detection and prevention. While traditional accounting literature predominantly addresses fraud through objective and...

Although previous research on the predictors of cyber fraud victimization has provided evidence of the impact of routine activity and low self-control on the risk of cyber fraud victimization, little knowledge is available in Japan. In addition, to the best of our knowledge, no study has yet...

There is a wealth of literature that describes and theorizes about the practices of economic and financial crime in the Global North and South, but little research has been done to explore the perspectives of other stakeholders on the growing trend of these crimes and the efficacy of the...

This study examines the growing concern of corporate delinquency in securities markets through an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating insights from sociological jurisprudence, criminology, and economic principles. Deploying a qualitative methodology, the research involves a comparative...

This feasibility study investigates the extent of the threat posed by the criminal misuse of pyrotechnic articles across Europe. It responds to concerns about illicit manufacturing, diversion to criminal channels, and misuse of pyrotechnic articles in criminal activities, aiming to provide the...

We estimate the effect of the Mexican drug war on Mexico-to-U.S. migration and the resulting effects on population, employment, and wages in U.S. labor markets. Our empirical strategy compares U.S. counties differentially connected to Mexican municipalities through historical migration networks,...

We experimentally evaluate a novel approach to IPV prevention that harnesses social media to recruit and engage men in a virtual support group delivered by trained male facilitators via WhatsApp. The program succeeded in recruiting men at high risk of committing IPV through self-targeting alone:...

Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) were introduced to enhance corporate accountability while mitigating the collateral consequences of full criminal prosecution. Yet, the U.S. practice has increasingly drawn criticism for reducing DPAs to convenient settlement devices, insufficiently aligned...

Leveraging unprecedented austerity cuts, this paper studies how a large-scale reorganization of police resources induced by the closure of over 70% of police stations - while keeping force-wide police strength constant - affects crime, po- lice effectiveness, civilian cooperation, and residents'...

Ransomware has become the most common cyber risk for businesses. The rise is not driven by attackers using innovative attacks, but instead by deteriorating negotiation outcomes. The average payment grew by almost 20,000% since 2018. However, it remains unclear why attackers can demand ever...

In this study, we employ a newly developed time series econometric approach to investigate the development in crime rates in various members states of the European Union (EU) between 1968 and 2019. We propose a panel data model with stochastically time-varying factors that also includes...

The criminal justice system primarily arrests and incarcerates people without high school diplomas. We estimate the causal effect of a high school diploma on criminal justice system contact for a set of people who previously exited high school but then attended The Excel Center (TEC), a network...