1.
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
NBER Working Paper No. w8004
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Nov 2000
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2001
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282
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25,444
2.
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases
University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 12-018
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 10 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago
Downloads
20,870
3.
Multiple Victim Public Shootings
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 10 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads
17,947
4.
The Effect of President Trump's Election on Hate Crimes
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Department of Marketing, Industrial Distribution & Economics and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Downloads
17,902
5.
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Baylor University, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
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13,848
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 11-042
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 15 Jul 2011
Downloads
1,291
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13,848
6.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Independent
There are 2 versions of this paper
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
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13,195
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Posted: 29 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2013
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13,195
7.
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice, Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
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10,571
8.
How a Botched Study Fooled the World About the U.S. Share of Mass Public Shootings: U.S. Rate is Lower than Global Average
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 28 Sep 2018
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice
Downloads
8,394
9.
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
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8,064
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 304-324, April 2007
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 09 Mar 2007
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19
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8,064
10.
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2016
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 27 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice
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7,121
11.
The Internet as a Conduit for Criminal Activity
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, Pattavina, A., ed., pp. 77-98, Sage Publications, Inc., 2005 (revised 2010, 2015)
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Jun 2005
Last Revised: 23 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
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6,785
12.
Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 6. p. 253, 2002
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 May 2003
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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6,573
13.
Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences
U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 12-002
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 16 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia and University of Chicago
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6,461
14.
The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 461
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 31 May 2014
Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University
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6,408
15.
Not an 'Ebay for Drugs': The Cryptomarket 'Silk Road' as a Paradigm Shifting Criminal Innovation
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 15 May 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Manchester - School of Law and University of Montreal - School of Criminology
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6,149
16.
Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice
94 N.Y.U. L. REV. ONLINE 192 (2019)
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 05 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 14 Jan 2020
Working Paper Series
AI Now Institute, New York University School of Law and AI Now Institute
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5,725
17.
Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Accidents in Schools that allow Teachers to Carry
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 29 May 2019
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice
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5,490
18.
In God's Shadow: Unveiling the Hidden World of Victims of Domestic Violence in Observant Religious Communities
11 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 471 (2014), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-27
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 29 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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5,416
19.
The Internet and its Opportunities for Cybercrime
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY MANUAL, M. Herzog-Evans, ed., Vol. 1, pp. 735-754, Nijmegen: WLP, 2010, Tilburg Law School Research Paper No. 09/2011
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 11 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
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5,218
20.
Crime Places in Crime Theory
Crime and Place: Crime Prevention Studies, 4 (pp. 1-33), Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 13 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cincinnati and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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5,162
21.
Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations
Law and Human Behavior, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-13
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 27 Apr 2010
Accepted Paper Series
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Medical School, King's College London, University of San Francisco and State University of New York (SUNY) - School of Criminal Justice
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4,790
22.
Confirming More Guns, Less Crime
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 24 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice, SUNY at Binghamton, Department of Economics and Crime Prevention Research Center
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4,753
23.
Show Me the Way to Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Homicide
Fox School of Business Research Paper No. 15-054
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 31 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - School of Business and Temple University - Department of Management Information Systems
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4,551
24.
Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 11 Jul 2000
Accepted Paper Series
US Department of Justice
There are 2 versions of this paper
Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 11 Jul 2000
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4,520
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4,520
25.
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 14 Jun 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
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4,498
26.
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow
NYU Law Review, April 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 243
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 29 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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4,256
27.
Police Structure: A Comparative Study of Policing Models
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 12 May 2010
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Kerala Judicial Service
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4,205
28.
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 24 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 24 Oct 2007
Working Paper Series
Emory University - Department of Economics, 1350 Main St UNIT 1703 and Emory University School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-Moratorium Panel Data
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 24 Oct 2007
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4,027
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4,027
29.
Racism, Discrimination and the Over-Representation of Indigenous People in the Criminal Justice System: Some Conceptual and Explanatory Issues
Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 17(3), 329-346 (2006)
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 25 Jul 2013
Working Paper Series
Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research,University of Technology Sydney
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3,920
30.
Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent to Delinquency?
Juvenile Justice Bulletin, August 2008
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 12 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 29 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Chapman University
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3,756
31.
Economic Analysis of Law
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 316, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 536
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 29 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
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3,602
32.
Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening
Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1561, 2006, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-37
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 02 Mar 2006
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
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3,523
33.
Comparing the Global Rate of Mass Public Shootings to the U.S.’s Rate and Comparing Their Changes Over Time
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 14 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
US Department of Justice
There are 2 versions of this paper
Comparing the Global Rate of Mass Public Shootings to the U.S.’s Rate and Comparing Their Changes Over Time
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 14 Dec 2018
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3,289
Comparing the Global Rate of Mass Public Shootings to the U.S.’s Rate and Comparing Their Changes Over Time
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 28 Sep 2020
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1,596
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3,289
34.
Predictive Policing and Reasonable Suspicion
62 Emory Law Journal 259 (2012)
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 02 May 2012
Last Revised: 12 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
American University Washington College of Law
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3,250
35.
Police Body-Worn Cameras
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 26 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
Data & Society Research Institute, Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute
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3,220
36.
Did Australia’s Ban on Semiauto Firearms Really Reduce Violence? A Critique of the Chapman et al. (2016) Study
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 20 Dec 2017
Last Revised: 14 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Florida State University - College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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3,195
37.
A General Theories of Hate Crime? Strain, Doing Difference and Self Control
(2011) Critical Criminology, 19 (4). pp. 313-330
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 23 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sussex Law School
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3,189
38.
Investigating the 'CSI Effect' Effect: Media and Litigation Crisis in Criminal Law
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 6, 2009
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 May 2009
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society and Griffith University - School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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3,144
39.
The Dark Web Dilemma: Tor, Anonymity and Online Policing
Global Commission on Internet Governance Paper Series, No. 21
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 02 Oct 2015
Last Revised: 23 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Virginia Tech
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3,082
40.
Theorising the Fear of Crime: The Cultural and Social Significance of Insecurities about Crime
Experience & Expression in the Fear of Crime Working Paper No. 5
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 07 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 19 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology
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3,043
41.
Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector
Forum on Crime and Society, Vol. 3, Nos. 1/2, December 2003
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 19 Sep 2006
Accepted Paper Series
International Law and Economic Development Center
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2,998
42.
Crime in the News: How Crimes, Offenders and Victims are Portrayed in the Media
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Vol. 14, pp. 59-83, 2007
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University and University of California, Irvine
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2,886
43.
An Analysis of the Nature of Groups Engaged in Cyber Crime
An Analysis of the Nature of Groups engaged in Cyber Crime, International Journal of Cyber Criminology January-June 2014, Volume 8 (1): 1-20.
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 03 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Australian National University (ANU), School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet), Cyber Security, Australian National University (ANU) and ANU Cybercrime Observatory, Australian National University
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2,856
44.
The Aggregate Burden of Crime
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 31 Jan 1999
Working Paper Series
Centre College
There are 2 versions of this paper
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2,848
45.
The Scale of Misdemeanor Justice
98 Boston University Law Review 731, 2018
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 26 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 21 Jun 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Georgia School of Law
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2,697
46.
The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem
103 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1, 2013
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 31 May 2012
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Belmont University School of Law and Florida Institute of Technology
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2,679
47.
Domestic Violence and Women's Safety: Feminist Challenges to Restorative Justice
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND FAMILY VIOLENCE, H. Strang, J. Braithwaite, eds., pp. 42-61, Cambridge University Press, 2002, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 08/16
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of New South Wales (UNSW, Australia) - Faculty of Law
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2,642
48.
'Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker': American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures
University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 614, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 401
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 05 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 01 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Columbia University
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2,626
49.
Introduction: Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 13 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Institute for Law and Justice
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2,625
50.
Governmentality and Risk
SOCIAL THEORIES OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY, pp. 52-75, J. Zinn, ed., Oxford, 2008, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 09/98
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 25 Sep 2009
Accepted Paper Series
The University of Sydney Law School
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2,615
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