Global Warming Vs. Street Crime
…conscience: Earlier this year, Joplin, Mo., reported a 47% drop in crime since 2007, when it started adding or replacing more than 1,000 lights throughout the city to reduce crime….
…conscience: Earlier this year, Joplin, Mo., reported a 47% drop in crime since 2007, when it started adding or replacing more than 1,000 lights throughout the city to reduce crime….
Crime rates have a large influence on the choices people make about where to live. The amazing declines in crime over the last fifteen years have been especially strong in…
…subtle factors that have unexpected consequences on crime. Still, the link between vitamin pills and crime just doesn’t make much sense to me unless one has a reasonable theory about…
…on crime and abortion. In a truly inspired moment, Levitt (and his coauthor John Donohue) were able to show that legalizing abortion reduced the amount of crime — 18 years…
…of my paper with John Donohue on legalized abortion to have specifications that did not match what we said we did in the text. (We’re still trying to figure out…
…about writing in Freakonomics but, for reasons I can no longer recall, didn’t. In a section about the downward effect of abortion on the crime rate, we discussed the back…
…Sarah Palin underwent amniocentesis; I generally wouldn’t expect someone with her views on abortion to do so, given that, presumably, she would not view abortion as an option. And indeed,…
Also: are the most memorable stories less likely to be true?
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that’s not always a bad thing.
…criminals are just better at [crime] than teenagers, and know how not to get caught. Senior criminals have all graduated to white-collar crime, and are no longer hunted by the…
What happens when the most disturbing ideas are also the best?
Good intentions are nice, but with so many resources poured into social programs, wouldn’t it be even nicer to know what actually works?
…find offsetting impacts on nonviolent crime and hypothesize that “military service may not change an individual’s propensity to commit crime but instead may cause them to commit more-severe crimes involving…
…levels of broadband access actually increase the rate of sex crimes. The study is titled,”Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?” Here’s a full version. And here’s the abstract:…
Now that New York City has been divested of its Wall Street riches and boomtime economy, it can go back to being a crime-infested war zone, right? Wrong. Violent crime…
In the latest issue of The Wilson Quarterly, there’s a “Crime and Punishment” section featuring Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig‘s “Economist’s Guide to Crime-Busting” (gated), which considers the most…
What if crime were depicted as elevation? In San Francisco, prostitution would look like two enormous peaks on one side of the city. Doug McCune is the creator of the…
…on crime rates, due to what’s called the “simultaneity” of causation. We might suppose police deter crime. But ironically, we often see lots of police in high-crime areas, not because…
The online universe doesn’t have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.
The online universe doesn’t have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.
Ideas are currency. This couldn’t be more true in academia, where it’s the job of researchers to think of questions and, hopefully, find answers. Bapu talks with economists Steve Levitt…
…crime falloff of the 1990’s, are we looking at the start of the great crime drop of the 2020’s? Or will we have our record-high rate of imprisonment to thank?…
(Photo: Victor1558) Our podcast “Women Are Not Men” looked at a variety of gender gaps, including the fact that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by men. A…
Associated Press reporter Robert Tanner writes an article today stating that evidence strongly supports the conclusion that the death penalty reduces crime. As with most media coverage of controversial issues,…
…for a well-lighted one. The New Yorker‘s David Owen explains: Lighting is effective in preventing crime mainly if it enables people to notice criminal activity as it’s taking place, and…
In a word: networks. Once it embraced information as its main currency, New York was able to climb out of a deep fiscal (and psychic) pit. Will that magic trick…
…crime. Particularly in inner city contexts, police sometimes have to make a trade off between preventing crime and limiting the consequences of bad behavior. For example — cops as well…
…Agan went block by block and found that crime rates in general, and sex crimes in particular, do not vary according to the number of sex offenders in the area….
How psychologist Dan Gilbert went from high school dropout to Harvard professor, found the secret of joy, and inspired Steve Levitt’s divorce….
…Bollywood, threatening stars and directors with violence unless they forked over cash. Did the crime wave have a chilling effect on the industry? Were there any direct ties to organized…
