Arbeitspapier
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and pre-post designs, we find evidence of a significant reduction in violent crimes (despite the possibility of off-setting increases in clearance and reporting rates). In contrast, a reduction in property crime is not visible.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ECONtribute Discussion Paper ; No. 053
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Regional and Urban History: Europe: Pre-1913
- Thema
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police
crime
deterrence
economic history
institutions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bindler, Anna
Hjalmarsson, Randi
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI)
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Bonn and Cologne
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bindler, Anna
- Hjalmarsson, Randi
- University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI)
Entstanden
- 2021
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