COPS and crime

By W. Evans, Emily Owens. 2007

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime (2015, background): “For example, many researchers find that crime rate is significantly influenced by the size of police force (Di Tella and Schargrodsky 2004; Evans and Owens 2007; Klick and Tabarrok 2005) and the severity of sentencing (Helland and Tabarrok 2007; Kessler and Levitt 1999).”
Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century (2013, background): “Panel studies include Marvell and Moody (1994), Levitt (1997, 2002), McCrary (2002), and Evans and Owens (2007).”
Testing the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline (2017, methodology): “This difference in 5 For more discussion of the UHP program, see Evans and Owens (2007) or Owens (2013).”
Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks (2011, background): “…experiment that we consider also has some important external validity in the sense that it involves the deployment of a clear “deterrence technology” (that is, more police on the streets) rather than a simple measure of expenditures (e.g. as in Evans and Owens, 2007, or Machin and Marie, 2009).”
Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment (2013, neutral): “Because intervention impacts often vary greatly by crime type (Deming 2011; Evans & Owens 2007; Kling, Ludwig & Katz 2005; Lochner & Moretti 2004; Weiner, Lutz & Ludwig 2009), as do social costs, we examine arrests separately for four different offense categories: violent, property, drug, and "…”
The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime (2017, background): “If burglary (but not larceny) is a qualifying offense, the inmate will be required to provide a DNA sample upon release, and he might show up as “treated” in both the post-expansion burglary and pre-expansion larceny samples.”
Low-income housing development and crime (2011, background): “…year effects across counties of similar sizes and with similar trends in crime and low-income housing development prior to 2002, the first year that our instrument is identified.24 We follow Evans and Owens (2007) and divide counties into groups based on “pre-treatment” trends and population size.”
Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature (2017, methodology): “These papers include Levitt (2002), which uses variation in firefighter numbers as an instrument for police manpower; Evans and Owens (2007), who instrument for police manpower using the size of federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants awarded to cities to promote police hiring;…”