Mirko Draca explains the factors behind falling crime rates in the UK, examining research he and colleagues have conducted. The evidence suggests that education and labour market policies, and increased spending on police resources are amongst the reasons for this trend. However, as the economy struggles to emerge from recession and inequality worsens, and as police budgets are curtailed, we can expect crime rates to level out and potentially rise
Policies targeted at high-crime neighbourhoods may have unintended consequences in the presence of o...
In the past fifteen years volume crimes dropped substantially in most countries with reliable crime ...
The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 imposed a series of deep welfare cuts, which disproportionately affec...
The current crime decrease is defying traditional criminological theories such as those espoused by ...
Crime is usually high on the list of voter concerns. This might seem surprising since total crime ha...
Crime is usually high on the list of voter concerns. This might seem surprising since total crime ha...
Since the mid-90s there has been almost a 50% reduction in the volume of crime in England and Wales ...
Since the mid-90s there has been almost a 50% reduction in the volume of crime in England and Wales ...
The ‘crime drop’ is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, ...
The explanations of the remarkable decrease in crime that has been reported over the last two decade...
Our effort to understand crime rate change is hampered by governmental thinking about crime, and the...
Major crime drops were experienced in the United States andmost other industrialized countries for a...
The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 imposed a series of deep welfare cuts, which disproportionately affec...
Crime rates have moved in parallel in Western societies since the late Middle Ages. Homicide rates d...
Major crime drops were experienced in the United States and most other industrialised countries for ...
Policies targeted at high-crime neighbourhoods may have unintended consequences in the presence of o...
In the past fifteen years volume crimes dropped substantially in most countries with reliable crime ...
The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 imposed a series of deep welfare cuts, which disproportionately affec...
The current crime decrease is defying traditional criminological theories such as those espoused by ...
Crime is usually high on the list of voter concerns. This might seem surprising since total crime ha...
Crime is usually high on the list of voter concerns. This might seem surprising since total crime ha...
Since the mid-90s there has been almost a 50% reduction in the volume of crime in England and Wales ...
Since the mid-90s there has been almost a 50% reduction in the volume of crime in England and Wales ...
The ‘crime drop’ is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, ...
The explanations of the remarkable decrease in crime that has been reported over the last two decade...
Our effort to understand crime rate change is hampered by governmental thinking about crime, and the...
Major crime drops were experienced in the United States andmost other industrialized countries for a...
The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 imposed a series of deep welfare cuts, which disproportionately affec...
Crime rates have moved in parallel in Western societies since the late Middle Ages. Homicide rates d...
Major crime drops were experienced in the United States and most other industrialised countries for ...
Policies targeted at high-crime neighbourhoods may have unintended consequences in the presence of o...
In the past fifteen years volume crimes dropped substantially in most countries with reliable crime ...
The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 imposed a series of deep welfare cuts, which disproportionately affec...