TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bondurant,Samuel R.
AU  - Lindo,Jason M.
AU  - Swensen,Isaac D.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - September 2016; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by substance-abuse-treatment facility openings and closings measured at the county level. The results indicate that substance-abuse-treatment facilities reduce both violent and financially motivated crimes in an area, and that the effects are particularly pronounced for relatively serious crimes. The effects on homicides are documented across three sources of homicide data
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w22610
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w22610
ER  -