Working Paper
Crime and arrests: deterrence or resource reallocation?
Abstract: We use monthly time-series data for 20 large U.S. cities to test the deterrence hypothesis (arrests reduce crimes) and the resource reallocation hypothesis (arrests follow from an increase in crime). We find (1) weak support for the deterrence hypothesis, (2) much stronger support for the resource reallocation hypothesis, and (3) differences in city-level estimates suggest much heterogeneity in the crime and arrest relationship across regions.
Keywords: Crime; Cities and towns;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 2010
Number: 2010-011