Why do increased arrest rates appear to reduce crime
Subtitle: deterrence, incapacitation, or measurement error?
By: Steven D. Levitt.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper no. 5268; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 5268.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Arrest -- United States -- Econometric models.; Crime -- United States -- Econometric models.
Notes: "September 1995."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [39-41]).

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