Crime and arrests: deterrence or resource reallocation?

Thomas Garrett and Lesli Ott ()

No 2010-011, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: We use monthly time-series data for 20 large U.S. cities to test the deterrence hypothesis (arrests reduce crimes) and the resource reallocation hypothesis (arrests follow from an increase in crime). We find (1) weak support for the deterrence hypothesis, (2) much stronger support for the resource reallocation hypothesis, and (3) differences in city-level estimates suggest much heterogeneity in the crime and arrest relationship across regions.

Keywords: Crime; Cities and towns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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