Crime and police resources
Subtitle: the street crime initiative
By: Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie.
Contributors: Marie, Olivier.; London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
Series: CEP discussion paper ;; no. 680; Discussion paper (London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance : Online) ;; no. 680.
Publisher: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a policy intervention - the Street Crime Initiative - that was introduced in England and Wales in 2002. This allocated  additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces did not receive any additional funding. Estimates derived from several empirical strategies  show that robberies did fall significantly in SCI police forces relative to non-SCI forces after the initiative was introduced. Moreover, the policy seems to have been a cost effective one. There is some heterogeneity in this positive net social benefit across different SCI police forces, suggesting that some police forces may have made better use of the extra resources than others. Overall, we reach the conclusion that increased police resources do in fact lead to lower crime, at least in the context of the SCI programme we study."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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