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Crime

  • The Efficacy of Prosecutor-Led, Adult Diversion for Misdemeanor Offenses

    Viet Nguyen

    April 5, 2022

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  • Street Light Outages, Public Safety and Crime Displacement: Evidence from Chicago

    Aaron Chalfin, Jacob Kaplan, Michael LaForest

    February 24, 2020

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  • Re-Examining the Law of Crime Concentration: Between and Within-City Evidence

    Aaron Chalfin, Jacob Kaplan, Maria Cuellar

    February 24, 2020

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  • An Algorithmic Approach to Forecasting Rare Violent Events: An Illustration Based in IPV Perpetration∗

    Richard A. Berk and Susan B. Sorenson

    May 31, 2019

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  • Effect of Gang Injunctions on Crime

    Greg Ridgeway, Jeffrey Grogger, Ruth Moyer, John MacDonald

    March 16, 2018

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  • Effect of Emergency Winter Homeless Shelters on Property Crime

    Greg Ridgeway

    January 2, 2018

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  • Effect of Rail Transit on Crime: A Study of Los Angeles from 1988-2014

    Greg Ridgeway, John MacDonald

    March 15, 2017

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  • Do Schools Cause Crime in Neighborhoods? Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Growth of Charter Schools in Philadelphia

    John M. MacDonald

    March 15, 2017

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