Criminal justice

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization.

It is axiomatic that public funding is a determinant of the quality of the justice system and that justice is a consequential area of public spending.

In this paper, we provide the first evidence on the effect of working from home (WFH) on crime.

We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the exoneration of Black Americans

We estimate the economic impacts of rape using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions.

We trace the lifecycle of judicial bias in India’s criminal courts, leveraging the quasi-random assignment of judges to courts and cases.

Globally, gang proliferation is fought mainly through sweeps. This paper examines the causal impact on crime for arrested individuals and their peers.

We evaluate the Education Maintenance Allowance, a conditional cash transfer scheme that paid low-income teenagers to remain in education post 16

Focusing on a wave of austerity cuts, I show that police station closure increased violent crimes in census blocks near the defunct stations.

This working paper studies the long-run effect of a cash transfer to disadvantaged students on educational attainment, earnings and crime.

We assess the effect of the creation of specialised courts on the reporting of IPV (intimate partner violence), and the incidence of IPV in Spain.

We investigate whether increased animosity toward Muslims after 9/11 had spillover effects on Black and Hispanic individuals in the federal criminal justice system.