A Preliminary Look at the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Crime in the United States

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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is largely believed to have originated in Wuhan, China in late December of 2019, with it rapidly spreading throughout the world by the Spring of 2020. Faced with pandemic, state-level governments in the United States gradually issued stay-at-home orders by the end of March 2020. Though primarily meant to constrain…