Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime

Samuel Bondurant (), Jason Lindo and Isaac Swensen ()

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Abstract: This paper estimates the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. It does so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by substance-abuse-treatment facility openings and closings measured at the county level. The results indicate that substance-abuse-treatment facilities reduce both violent and financially motivated crimes in an area, and that the effects are particularly pronounced for relatively serious crimes. The effects on homicides are documented across three sources of homicide data [Working Paper 22610]

Keywords: Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; Local Crime; identification strategy; violent and financially motivated crimes; homicides (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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