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Domestic abuse remains a pervasive challenge worldwide. According to data from the Office for National Statistics, domestic abuse affects one in five people aged 16 and above in the UK. In 2021, the then Conservative gov...Read more...
Aadya Bahl, Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Ekaterina Oparina
30 September 2025
The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring the causes and consequences of criminal behavior. This chapter surveys key contributions and developme...Read more...
Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Paolo Pinotti
4 December 2024
In the UK, partners or family members are responsible for nearly half of all female homicides. But there is an increasing rate of statement withdrawal from victims in high-risk domestic abuse cases. Tom Kirchmaier and Ek...Read more...
Tom Kirchmaier and Ekaterina Oparina
15 April 2024
Magdalena Dominguez discusses organised crime in Uruguay, showing that although it has not reached extreme levels like in other countries in the region, is leaving a worrying mark. She shares measures and approaches Urug...Read more...
Magdalena Dominguez
11 December 2023
Keeping young people in education can provide them with protection from crime as well as limiting opportunities for them to engage in criminal activities. But a policy of raising the age of compulsory attendance may also...Read more...
Matteo Sandi
1 November 2023
Disparate treatment of minorities by the judicial system is not a construct of modern institutions. Irish defendants and victims faced harsher treatment and outcomes at London's Old Bailey in the 19th century. Lessons fr...Read more...
Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melissa Rubio
30 October 2023
Domestic abuse is a pervasive global problem. Here we analyze two approaches to reducing violent DA recidivism. One involves charging the perpetrator with a crime; the other provides protective services to the victim on ...Read more...
Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier and Koen Sanders
20 January 2023
In this chapter we review the existing literature in economics related to crime prevention policies beyond police efforts. First, we highlight the ongoing and notable debate over the possible public policies to follow fo...Read more...
Magdalena Dominguez and Daniel Montolio
14 October 2022
Domestic abuse increases following football games - and this increase is driven by alcohol-related abuse, a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science finds. The research from the LSE's Centre fo...Read more...
Ria Ivandic
11 October 2021
We compare predictions from a conventional protocol-based approach to risk assessment with those based on a machine-learning approach. We first show that the conventional predictions are less accurate than, and have simi...Read more...
Jeffrey Grogger, Sunetra Gupta, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier
24 March 2021
This paper analyses the impact of the introduction of an Earning or Learning reform on youth crime in Queensland, Australia. The 2006 reform increased learning and reduced earning as school participation rose post-reform...Read more...
Tony Beatton, Michael P. Kidd, Stephen Machin and Dipa Sarkar
1 June 2018
Police agencies devote vast resources to minimizing the time that it takes them to attend the scene of a crime. Despite this, the long-standing consensus is that police response time has no meaningful effect on the likel...Read more...
Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Tom Kirchmaier
1 April 2018
Rapid response policing not only boosts crime detection but also reduces the time it takes to find the offenders. That is the central finding of analysis of data from the Greater Manchester Police by Jordi Blanes i Vidal...Read more...
22 February 2016
Significant riots occurred in London in August 2011. The riots took place in highly localised geographical areas, with crime going up hugely in the affected sub-wards. The criminal justice response was to make sentencing...Read more...
Brian Bell, Laura Jaitman and Stephen Machin
1 May 2014
In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime, looking at what happened to crime and police before and after the terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeploy...Read more...
Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt
1 August 2011
In this paper we look at the connection between police resources and crime by focussing on a large-scale policy intervention—the Street Crime Initiative—that was introduced in England and Wales in 2002. This allocated ad...Read more...
Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie
In this article, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causal statistical estimates based upon a law that changed the compulsory school leaving age in England and Wales. We frame the analysis in ...Read more...
Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie and Suncica Vujic
1 May 2011
The terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 resulted in a very large redeployment of police officers to central London boroughs. New research by Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt looks at the impact of this increased ...Read more...
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