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Crime and police resources: the street crime initiative

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention the Street Crime Initiative that was introduced in England and Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces did not receive any additional funding. Estimates derived from several empirical strategies show that robberies fell significantly in SCI police forces relative to non-SCI forces after the initiative was introduced. Moreover, the policy seems to have been a cost effective one, even after allowing for possible displacement or diffusion effects onto other crimes and adjacent areas. There is some heterogeneity in this positive net social benefit across different SCI police forces, suggesting that some police forces may have made better use of the extra resources than others. Overall, we reach the conclusion that increased police resources do in fact lead to lower crime, at least in the context of the SCI programme we study.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1853

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Public Economics: General
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Thema
street crime
police resources
cost effectiveness
Kriminalität
Polizei
Kosten-Wirksamkeits-Analyse
Großbritannien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Machin, Stephen
Marie, Olivier
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Machin, Stephen
  • Marie, Olivier
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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