The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

Evidence in the UK on the crime-police relation (in the context of the July 2005 terror attacks that hit London) is presented in Draca et al. (2011) and evidence of crime reduction from a specific policy (the Street Crime Initiative) appears in Machin and Marie (forthcoming).2 Examples from the criminology literature include Farrington (1986Farrington ( , 1999) ) and from the education literature include Sabates (2008Sabates ( , 2009) ) and Sabates and Feinstein (2008).There is much less work by economists.See Lochner (forthcoming) for a broader overview of the crime and education literature.