Jul 20th 2013

The Curious Case of the Fall in Crime

The world this week

Leaders

Crime

The curious case of the fall in crime

Crime is plunging in the rich world. To keep it down, governments should focus on prevention, not punishment

Youth unemployment in Europe

Guaranteed to fail

German-led plans for tackling youth unemployment in Europe are far too timid

Reform in Cuba

Set the farmers and shopkeepers free

And let Cubans benefit more from change

Afghanistan after 2014

Why zero is not an option

Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama should stop playing games with Afghanistan’s future

Sport

Testing times

How mathematical logic could help stamp out drug use by sportsmen

Letters

On Amartya Sen, defence spending, Britain, Egypt, immigration, France, GDP, sailing

Briefing

Falling crime

Where have all the burglars gone?

The rich world is seeing less and less crime, even in the face of high unemployment and economic stagnation

Predictive policing

Don’t even think about it

It is getting easier to foresee wrongdoing and spot likely wrongdoers

United States

Internship

Race and crime

Trayvon’s legacy

The Whitey Bulger trial

Blast from the past

Walmart in Washington, DC

Welcome to the capital

Homebrewing

Hops and change

Demography

Broke in the ’burbs

Lexington

Lessons from the desert

The Americas

Cuba’s economy

Money starts to talk

Religion in Brazil

Earthly concerns

Crime in Mexico

Zeta zeroed

Asia

Elections in Japan

Man with plan

Security in Afghanistan

Holding their ground

Solomon Islands

Aussie rules

Bangladeshi politics

Jamaat tomorrow

Lighting rural India

Out of the gloom

China

Nuclear activism

Limiting the fallout

At the box office

My generation

Economic growth

Missing the mat

Middle East & Africa

African money transfers

Let them remit

Togo’s election

A tale of two families

Egypt after the coup

The struggle to restore calm

Syria’s Islamist fighters

Competition among Islamists

Gays in Lebanon

They’re not ill

Europe

The Italian government

Shirtsleeve time

The Navalny case

Guilty as charged

Spain’s prime minister

Rajoy there!

Charlemagne

Reaching for the clouds

Greece, Portugal and the euro

In the dumps

Britain

How to run a city

The wrong trousers

Expanding London’s airports

Go west

The changing property market

Rented castles

Britain’s nuclear arsenal

There is no alternative

Pubs

Bar-room brawl

Open data

Mining Leviathan

Class on stage

Charlie and the aspiration factory

Bagehot

Let a thousand flowers bloom

International

Technology and deaf people

Listen up

Between the lines

Paying lawmakers

Rewarding work

Business

Higher education

The attack of the MOOCs

Executive MBA ranking

Joint highs

GlaxoSmithKline in China

Bitter pill

Renewable energy in Spain

The cost del sol

Canadian retailing

Drug deal

Internet access

Congestion on the line

TV everywhere

The travel channels

Schumpeter

Crazy diamonds

Finance & economics

American banks

The triumph of low expectations

The trial of Fabrice Tourre

Not so fabulous

Labour markets

Glad to be grey

Buttonwood

Rateable value

The long arm of American justice

GloboCop

The Sinodependency index

Declaration of Chindependence

The IT cloud

Silver linings

Free exchange

Bandwagon behaviour

Science & technology

The origins of war

Old soldiers?

Marine ecology

Welcome to the plastisphere

Climate science

Sensitive information

Doping in sport

Athlete’s dilemma

Books & arts

Art about climate change

Chilling

A memoir of winemaking

In the drink

Germany and the euro

The Merkel method

Russia’s American empire

How the east was lost

New film: “Fruitvale Station”

An American tragedy

New fiction