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Essays On The Economics Of Crime, Duha T. Altindag
Essays On The Economics Of Crime, Duha T. Altindag
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation includes three essays on the application of economics to various aspects of crime and criminal activity. The research presented in this dissertation points out a cause and a consequence of crime as well as the possible influence of a law on criminal activity. The first chapter provides an introduction to the ways that economic reasoning can be used to analyze criminal activity. The second chapter examines individuals' gun carrying activity in the presence of concealed weapon laws. The results suggest that allowing law-abiding individuals to carry concealed handguns is more likely to reduce crime than to increase it. …
The Economics Of Discrimination In The Court System: Police, Technology, And Their Interaction, Sarah Marx Quintanar
The Economics Of Discrimination In The Court System: Police, Technology, And Their Interaction, Sarah Marx Quintanar
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation consists of three essays which utilize automated traffic enforcement data to investigate the existence of police discrimination in issuing speeding tickets and potential crime reduction as a secondary effect of using such programs. In the first chapter, I use tickets issued by automated traffic enforcement cameras as a measure of the population of speeders to compare with police-issued tickets. The novel dataset has an advantage over previous literature because data collection was not a result of suspected police bias. I find that a ticketed individual is more likely to be African-American and more likely to be female when …