COVID and crime: An early empirical look
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In this paper, data from 25 large U.S. cities is assembled to estimate the impact of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime, showing a widespread immediate drop in both criminal incidents and arrests most heavily pronounced among drug crimes, theft, residential burglaries, and most violent crimes.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2021-01-22 and is currently open access. It has received 70 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Property crime & Homicide.read more
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Trends in Violent Penetrating Injuries During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Excess mortality from COVID and non-COVID causes in minority populations.
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The great crime recovery: Crimes against women during, and after, the COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider whether the COVID-19 stay-at-home order affected crimes targeting women and find that lapses in alimony, sexual crimes, and domestic violence follow a U-shaped trend.
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Crime, quarantine, and the U.S. coronavirus pandemic
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on crime rates in large U.S. cities based on a longer time period, a greater number of offenses than prior research, and a varying number of cities for each offense (max = 28, min = 13, md = 20).
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: A Spatial Temporal Analysis in Chicago
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the spatial and temporal patterns of crime in Chicago through spatial-and temporal crime analyses approaches.
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