Sweeping up gangs: The effects of tough-on-crime policies from a network approach

Worldwide, gang proliferation is fought mostly with tough punishment strategies such as sweeps. In this paper, I study their causal effect on crime for arrested individuals and known peers following a difference-in-differences strategy. I also take advantage of the network structure I retrieved to a...

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Main Author: Domínguez, Magdalena (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2021
In:Year: 2021
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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