The article investigates the effect of crime on firm entry rates in Italian provinces over the
period 2007–2016. The extant literature focuses mainly on the relationship between crime …

Increasing residents' safety perception is essential for their health and wellbeing, and is of
great importance when it comes to neighborhood planning and policy design. Despite the …

Stock theft is a persistent and widespread problem affecting farmers in the Eastern Cape
Province of South Africa. This study aimed to explore farmers' perceptions of stock theft in …

The floating population is frequently treated as a homogeneous whole to explore its impact
on crime in numerous crime studies in China. However, there are different compositions …

Private security officers outnumber police by a wide margin, and the gap may be growing. As
cities have claimed to defund the police, many have quietly expanded their use of private …

Purpose The introduction of community policing led to a significant increase in the number of
police stations, particularly in urban settings. Police stations are largely assumed to have an …

In this article we study the effects of permanent school closures on crime. We leverage the
closure of over 300 schools in Scotland between the school years 2006/07 and 2018/19 …

We examine the process of intertemporal decision-making among potential offenders by
analyzing their response to announcements of future changes in anticrime policies. We …

Commerce, as both an environmental and a social factor, is essential to the study of the
causes of urban crimes. This paper aims to comprehensively propose research hypotheses …

In this paper, we provide the first evidence of the effect of the shift to remote work on crime.
We examine the impact of the rise of working from home (WFH) on neighborhood-level …