16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime

On September 26-27, 2025, the 16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime took place at the DIW Berlin, co-hosted by Anna Bindler (DIW) and Christian Traxler (Hertie School). Highlights of this year’s workshop included keynote lectures by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard (VU Amsterdam) on violence and bystander behavior and by Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) on migration and organized crime. The conference was complemented by research presentations on the economics of the criminal justice system, social policy and crime, police organization, crime in communities and local economies, prisons, as well as schools, peer effects and gang crime.