Crime and Conflict

The economics of crime is a key policy area and we summarise what we know on this subject in the election analysis "Reducing Crime: More Police, More Prisons or More Pay?" [Full document in Adobe PDF], Olivier Marie, CEP Paper CEPEA003, April 2005

We are starting to build up a small body of work in this area, including:

In "Panic on the Streets of London: Police. Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks" [Full document in Adobe PDF], CEP Discussion Paper 852, February 2008, Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt use the redistribution in policing that resulted from the London bombings to estimate the effect of policing on crime: 10 per cent more police leads to 3 per cent less crime.

Contact Stephen Machin, email s.machin@ucl.ac.uk, for further details.
In "Conflict-Induced Displacement and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina" [Full document in Adobe PDF] CEP Discussion Paper 777, (Revised) November 2007, Florence Kondylis investigates the consequences of displacement from conflict finding large negative effects on employment.

Contact Florence Kondylis, email f.kondylis@lse.ac.uk, for futher details.