Nathalie Alvarado, Ervyn Norza, Santiago M. Perez-Vincent, Santiago Tobón, Martín Vanegas-Arias
{"title":"The Evolution of Citizen Security in Colombia in Times of COVID-19","authors":"Nathalie Alvarado, Ervyn Norza, Santiago M. Perez-Vincent, Santiago Tobón, Martín Vanegas-Arias","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3946567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3946567","url":null,"abstract":"This technical note examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime and law enforcement dynamics in Colombia. The analysis uses administrative data on police reports and arrests for different types of offenses. It applies a “difference-in-differences” model, comparing the number of reports and arrests during the quarantine against their pre-quarantine trend. The results show a marked decline in homicides, motor vehicle theft, and other theft types in the initial weeks of the quarantine. The strong initial declines attenuated over time. The results reveal differences in crime dynamics between different regions of the country. The analysis also shows how COVID-19 modified police activity: arrests for offenses such as homicide and robbery decreased, and arrests due to threats to public health increased. This article contributes to a growing number of studies on the pandemic’s social impact and provides data and tools to inform citizen security and criminal justice policies.","PeriodicalId":134837,"journal":{"name":"CJRN: Other Correlates of Crime (Topic)","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116162276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joost Impink, P. Kielty, Han Stice, Roger M. White
{"title":"Do Video Games Increase Crime?","authors":"Joost Impink, P. Kielty, Han Stice, Roger M. White","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2652919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2652919","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the change in crime observed in the weeks following the release of both violent and non-violent top-selling video games between 2006 and 2011. We find that the release of Mature-rated video games is associated with an increase in overall crime in the weeks following release. Crime increases for both youth and adults following Mature-related releases, but the increase in crime among youth is approximately four times greater (8%) than the increase among adults (2%). Conversely, we find that the release of non-violent (Everyone-rated) video games is associated with a decrease in crime in the weeks directly following the release. Our results suggest that the release of violent video games increases crime in the United States, at least in the short-term, especially among the under-17 population for whom Mature-rated games are explicitly labeled as not “suitable.”","PeriodicalId":134837,"journal":{"name":"CJRN: Other Correlates of Crime (Topic)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125286736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}