Han, Lu; Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Bhattacharya, Samrat - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2010
We examine various determinants of property and violent crimes by using police force area level (PFA) data on England and Wales over the period 1992-2008. Our list of potential determinants includes two law enforcement variables, crime-specific detection rate and prison population, and various...