Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "crime"
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Crime Alert! How Thinking about a Single Suspect Automatically Shifts Stereotypes toward an Entire Group
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Crime alerts are meant to raise community awareness and identify individual criminal suspects; they are not expected to affect attitudes and beliefs toward the social group to which an individual suspect belongs. However, ... -
Essays on the Economic and Social Consequences of Policing
(2022-05-11)This dissertation contains three essays on the economic and social consequences of policing. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the effectiveness and equity of the police's use of pedestrian stops as a crime deterrence tool. Over ... -
Essays on the Economics of Climate Change
(2012-07-25)This dissertation studies three aspects of the economics of climate change: how rising sea levels will affect coastal homeowners in Florida; how changes in weather will affect the prevalence of crime in the United States; ... -
Institutions and Offending: Three Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment
(2013-10-18)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how institutions affect punishment choices and levels of offending. -
Juvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood
(SAGE Publications, 2013)Official sanctioning of students by the criminal justice system is a long-hypothesized source of educational disadvantage, but its explanatory status remains unresolved. Few studies of the educational consequences of a ... -
Making Criminals: The Rhetoric of Criminality in Acts of the Apostles
(2021-11-16)The Acts of the Apostles writes criminals into existence. Acts, a second-century text that narrates the origins of the messiah movement or “the Way”—its term for Christ-followers—has often been read as a straightforward ... -
Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effects of Immigration and Diversity on Neighborhood Homicide Rates
(SAGE Publications, 2010)This article examines the connection of immigration and diversity to homicide by advancing a recently developed approach to modeling spatial dynamics—geographically weighted regression (GWR). In contrast to traditional ...