Police and crime commissioners: emerging “drug policy actors”?

Unravelling the role of Police and Crime Commissioners

In light of the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to invigorate the democratic governance of the police, I examine how PCCs perceived their new role within their first year in office. Based on 32 interviews with PCCs across England and Wales and one case study, I illustrate how the role has been perceived broadly, from police management through to crime-reduction co-ordinati...

Police Patrols and Crime∗

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas, by economically-realistic amount...

Can Police Prevent Crime?

Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes treatments where a reward o...

An Analysis of Crime and Crime Policy

About the Author Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham and an internationally recognised scholar in political economy, public choice and development issues. He holds degrees from the Universities of Calcutta and Delhi, and has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University. His work has been published by the Royal Economic Society and in the European Jou...