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Sadiq Khan highlights modelling from the London School of Economics showing that a 10% rise in Londoners' living costs is accompanied by an eight per cent overall increase in violence, robberies, shoplifting, burglary an... Read more...
14 March 2024
How can economists help police forces to better assign their police officers onto the streets, thereby providing a better service to the public? In the Policing and Crime Research Group at the London School of Economics ... Read more...
25 January 2024
As more data on crime and policing become available, economists are getting deeper insights into the causes and effects of criminal behaviour, and a greater understanding of how the criminal justice system works. Tom Kir... Read more...
02 November 2023
Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin and Carmen Villa-Llera examine the relationship between areas of London that were bombed in the Second World War and crime rates. Discovering that the probability of finding a ga... Read more...
28 August 2021
A study by Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas finds that a “considerable amount of domestic abuse” could be mitigated by arranging football fixtures on weekdays or... Read more...
09 July 2021
Researchers find alcohol consumption - rather than heightened emotions - is to blame for rises in male-on-female violence following matches, and this could be reduced by more evening and weekend games. ... Read more...
05 July 2021
Researchers at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance find alcohol consumption following football matches is fuelling domestic abuse in the hours after a game and suggest that... Read more...
04 July 2021
Amidst increasing levels of money laundering, Tom Kirchmaier suggests a three-step solution to the issues faced by banks. ... Read more...
21 September 2020
A new study, carried out by the London School of Economics, said police have seen around 380 more domestic violence calls per week on average as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Finding the cause is &ldqu... Read more...
02 July 2020
How can AI help police forces determine who might be most at risk of domestic abuse? Ria Ivandić talks about work being done at CEP to use existing information to help police prioritise emergenc... Read more...
09 March 2020
Interview with CEP’s Ria Ivandic about the CEP Crime research programme. ... Read more...
20 September 2019
The attacks on mosques in Oslo and Christchurch have again called attention to the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment that is increasingly becoming normalised in media and on social platforms. This column studies the role the... Read more...
09 September 2019
06 September 2019
"We have a money laundering system that doesn't work. Therefore, we must not just introduce more rules. It does not help. Extensive reform is urgently needed," says Professor Tom Kirchmaier, who researches at Copenhagen ... Read more...
17 July 2019
Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin study the empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks. They find that local Muslim populations face a media-magnified... Read more...
09 May 2019
We should shift the entire responsibility for money laundering with the respective financial authorities and invest much more in IT technology, writes CBS professor and expert in money laundering, Tom Kirchmaier.... Read more...
31 March 2019
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime Outlet: BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio 5 Live and over 15 other local BBC Radio Stations Crime Research... Read more...
07 March 2019
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime. ... Read more...
06 March 2019
But Prof Will Jennings, a political scientist at the University of Southampton, and Prof Tom Kirchmaier, who lectures on crime and policing at the LSE, both tell me that the increase in knife crime is probably real. What... Read more...
And crooks respond to the changing value of goods, says Mirko Draca of the University of Warwick. With colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the London School of Economics, he examined the effect of pric... Read more...
16 December 2017
The 2017 Annual Public Lecture took place at the Royal Institution, London on 22 November 2017. In this lecture Professor Stephen Machin discusses the importance of economic incentives as a determinant of crime, what eco... Read more...
06 December 2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.003 ... Read more...
16 November 2017
Article by Roberto Ganau and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Whether organised crime undermines productivity has been studied extensively in broad terms, but not at the firm level. This column uses exte... Read more...
19 August 2017
Woman’s Hour: Emily Thornberry ‘Finds brief in handbag’ after last-minute appearance in place of ‘unwell’ Diane Abbot Rudd also claimed that cutting numbers of police officers ... Read more...
06 June 2017
There is an extensive economic research literature on immigration and crime. Two of the international Authorities are Brian Bell (Oxford University) and Stephen Machin (LSE). Sanandaji also re... Read more...
17 May 2017
Article by Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin Recessions can lead to an increase in youth unemployment, which could later negatively affect labour market outcomes. This column explores the effect of recessions ... Read more...
04 March 2015
Were the severe sentences to participants in the 2011 riots an essential crisis response or a draconian overreaction? To an economist, they are something else: a fascinating natural experiment. With the news full of crus... Read more...
01 August 2014
Crime in British neighborhoods that have experienced mass immigration from Eastern Europe over the last 10 years has fallen significantly, according to research that challenges a widely held view over the impact of forei... Read more...
04 May 2013
Crime is usually high on the list of voter concerns. This might seem surprising since total crime has fallen significantly since the mid 1990s. Yet two thirds of the population still (wrongly) think that crime is rising ... Read more...
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