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Devaluation and Solvability: The Quest for Factors Affecting Violent Crime Clearance
The U.S. violent crime clearance rate has gradually decreased since the 1990s, and current literature posits three main explanations—victim devaluation thesis, neighborhood devaluation thesis, and solvability perspective—for the decline. The literature on violent crime clearance, however, is …
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Essays in political economy
… first ten years after the reform, the property crime rate was lower and the violent crime clearance rate was higher in departments operating under a merit system than in departments operating under a spoils system. I explore three possible channels: resources, police officers' characteristics …