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Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 73

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Apr 1999

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr. and William M. Landes

Crime Prevention Research Center and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 52,887

2.

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 12 Aug 1999

Accepted Paper Series

John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt

Stanford Law School and University of Chicago

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 24,585

3.

Multiple Victim Public Shootings

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Jun 2001

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr. and William M. Landes

Crime Prevention Research Center and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 15,716

4.

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: 14 Sep 2012

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Sonja B. Starr

University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 11,959

5.

Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013

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Scott Cunningham, Benjamin Engelstätter and Michael R. Ward

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

Downloads 11,123

6.

Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Jul 2015

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr., John E Whitley and Rebekah C. Riley

Crime Prevention Research Center, Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 8,951

7.

Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 May 2001

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr. and John E Whitley

Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,508

8.

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

Gabriel "Jack" Chin

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Downloads 5,680

9.

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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Glenn Greenwald

Independent

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,635

10.

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

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Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue III and Alexandria Zhang

Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,635

11.

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

Michal Gilad

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 4,988

12.

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

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M. Marit Rehavi and Sonja B. Starr

University of British Columbia and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 4,555

13.

Confirming More Guns, Less Crime

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr., Florenz Plassmann and John E Whitley

Crime Prevention Research Center, SUNY at Binghamton, Department of Economics and Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 4,486

14.

Does a Helping Hand Put Others At Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime

Economic Inquiry, April 2000

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Jul 2000

Accepted Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,372

15.

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

David S. Wall

University of Leeds, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies

Downloads 4,053

16.

Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 73, 2006

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Jun 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig

Columbia University and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

Downloads 3,755

17.

Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2016

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Jul 2016

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 3,545

18.

Not an 'Ebay for Drugs': The Cryptomarket 'Silk Road' as a Paradigm Shifting Criminal Innovation

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 May 2014

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Judith Aldridge and David Décary-Hétu

University of Manchester - School of Law and University of Montreal - School of Criminology

Downloads 3,344

19.

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

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Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin and Joanna Shepherd

Emory University - Department of Economics, Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,311

20.

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

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Brad N. Greenwood and Sunil Wattal

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Temple University - Department of Management Information Systems

Downloads 3,188

21.

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

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A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,183

22.

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

James Forman, Jr. Jr.

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 3,170

23.

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

Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Richard A. Leo and Allison D. Redlich

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, University of Massachusetts Worcester - University of Massachusetts Medical School, King's College London, University of San Francisco - School of Law and State University of New York (SUNY) - School of Criminal Justice

Downloads 3,037

24.

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

Adam J. Kolber

Brooklyn Law School

Downloads 3,031

25.

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

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Chris Cunneen

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Law

Downloads 3,018

26.

The Aggregate Burden of Crime

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 31 Jan 1999

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David A. Anderson

Centre College

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,699

27.

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

Simon A. Cole and Rachel Dioso-Villa

University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society and Griffith University - School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Downloads 2,682

28.

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

Richard E. Redding

Chapman University, Office of the Provost

Downloads 2,520

29.

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

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Stephen Farrall, Emily Gray and Jonathan Jackson

University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield and London School of Economics & Political Science - Department of Methodology

Downloads 2,447

30.

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

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

University of the District of Columbia - David A. Clarke School of Law

Downloads 2,424

31.

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

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Bert-Jaap Koops

Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)

Downloads 2,390

32.

Police Structure: A Comparative Study of Policing Models

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 May 2010 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2010

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Dr. John Varghese

Kerala Judicial Service

Downloads 2,321

33.

Criminal Law in Cyberspace

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 149, April 2001

Number of pages: 121 Posted: 05 Jan 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Neal Kumar Katyal

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 2,315

34.

Street Stops and Broken Windows: Terry, Race and Disorder in New York City

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 28, P. 457, 2000

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Feb 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies

Columbia Law School and Simon Fraser University (SFU) - School of Criminology

Downloads 2,308

35.

Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in 'Acquaintance Rape' Cases

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 196, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,246

36.

Police Body-Worn Cameras

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Feb 2015

Working Paper Series

Alexandra Claudia Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat and danah boyd

Data & Society Research Institute, Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute

Downloads 2,234

37.

'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

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Gary S. Becker, Francois Ewald and Bernard E. Harcourt

University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Columbia University

Downloads 2,216

38.

A Model Regime of Privacy Protection (Version 2.0)

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 132; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 132

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Apr 2005

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Daniel J. Solove and Chris Jay Hoofnagle

George Washington University Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Information

Downloads 2,192

39.

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

Edgardo Buscaglia

International Law and Economic Development Center

Downloads 2,108

40.

Plagiarism, Norms, and the Limits of Theft Law: Some Observations on the Use of Criminal Sanctions in Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2002

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 Jun 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Stuart P. Green

Rutgers Law School

Downloads 2,102

41.

Do Norms Matter?: A Cross-Country Examination of the Private Benefits of Control

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 183

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Jan 2001

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John C. Coffee Jr.

Columbia Law School

Downloads 2,068

42.

Law and Behavioral Biology

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 105, pp. 405-502, March 2005

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 31 Mar 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Owen D. Jones and Timothy H. Goldsmith

Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and Yale University - Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

Downloads 2,057

43.

Sorting Guilty Minds

New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, 2011

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 05 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Francis X. Shen, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Joshua D. Greene and Rene Marois

University of Minnesota Law School, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Harvard University - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience

Downloads 2,025

44.

Gun Control

Kennedy School Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP01-033

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 04 Dec 2001

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Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga and Mark H. Moore

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Kennedy School of Government - Hauser Center

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,022

45.

Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2015

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Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan

University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and International Rescue Committee

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,013

46.

Rules and Principles: A Theory of Legal Certainty

Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 27, pp. 47-82, 2002

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Oct 2002

Accepted Paper Series

John Bradford Braithwaite

Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)

Downloads 2,002

47.

Moral Heuristics

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 180

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Mar 2003

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,947

48.

Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear: Social Science Fiction(s) and the Production of Knowledge about Cybercrime (Revised Feb. 2011)

Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 861-884, 2008

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

David S. Wall

University of Leeds, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies

Downloads 1,935

49.

The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 82, 2004

Number of pages: 117 Posted: 16 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Steven A. Drizin

University of San Francisco - School of Law and Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic

Downloads 1,889

50.

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

John E. Eck and David L. Weisburd

University of Cincinnati and Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Downloads 1,883

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