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Juvenile curfew and crime reduction: Evidence from Brazil

Author(s) -

Carazza Luís,

Mota Silveira Neto Raul,

Emanuel Lucas

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

papers in regional science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1435-5957

pISSN - 1056-8190

DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12573

Subject(s) - curfew , juvenile delinquency , estimation , juvenile , state (computer science) , geography , political science , criminology , sociology , economics , mathematics , medicine , disease , management , pathology , covid-19 , algorithm , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , genetics

The city of Fernandópolis, located in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, imposed a juvenile curfew in 2005. This decision was not made at the municipal or state level, but in a courtroom. Subsequently, other municipalities in the state of São Paulo decided to adopt a juvenile curfew. To assess the effect of the curfew on reducing crime, this paper uses the difference‐in‐differences estimation to compare its impact, relative to municipalities that did not adopt a curfew. The results suggest that the curfew led to a decrease of 17.9% in thieves per thousand inhabitants in municipalities that adopted it.

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