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Does a longer commuting time increase the probability of being victim of urban violence? : the evidence from Brazilian metropolitan regions

Moura, Klebson; Silveira Neto, Raul da Mota - 2015

, in fact, reflect a general situation of high violence related to other kinds of crime in the country; as related to the … violence associated to robbery, for example, the numbers of UNDOC (2012) for 2010 put Brazil, with rates (occurrences per one … violence is neither the only substantive urban problem of Brazilian big urban centers, nor it is dissociated to other urban …

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Fear of crime in the Istanbul city center

Ergun, Nilgun; Yirmibesoglu, Funda - 2011

environmental factors has long been debated. A significant characteristic of research on criminality is the use of charts and maps …

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City of God redux : inequality, migration, and violent crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2015

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some previous studies suggest that these results hold in the short term only. This could result from measurement error in income inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement...

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Should football teams be taxed? : determining crime externalities from football matches

Planells-Struse, Simon; Montolio, Daniel - 2014 - This (preliminary) version July 2014

Given the actual debate, in many European countries, about the need for public administrations to raise their revenues through taxing the crime externalities generated by some private leisure activities, this article analyzes the effect of football matches on crime focusing both on property...

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Legitimization of urban regeneration in squatter housing areas through elements of poverty and crime in Turkey : Altindağ Çġnçġn Area and Sġncan Saraycik neighbourhood

Güzey, Özlem; Aksoy, Erman - 2014

While urban regeneration in Turkey emerges as an effective method of intervention in the transformation of urban space into areas of attraction for the global capital, intervention areas are defined as squatter housing areas where degradation process is visible, the population of which gradually...

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The local determinants of crime victimization

Hémet, Camille - 2014

This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French victimization survey. The very local nature of the data enables me to tackle the endogenous location selection issue: once I control for the characteristics of a larger area into...

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Does selective crime reporting influence our ability to detect racial discrimination in the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program?

Lehrer, Steven F.; Lepage, Louis Pierre - In: The econometrics of complex survey data : theory and …, (pp. 259-286). 2019

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The impact of crime on apartment prices : evidence of Stockholm, Sweden

Ceccato, Vania; Wilhemson, Mats - 2010

were break down by types, violence, residential burglary, vandalism and robbery had individually a significant effect on …

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The cost of fear of crime on apartment prices : ERSA Congress, Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy, 19th - 23rd August 2010, Jönköping, Sw...

Ceccato, Vania; Wilhemson, Mats - 2010 - Preliminary and incomplete draft

Evidence shows that crime affects housing prices. However, whether fear of crime impacts equally on prices of properties is an issue little investigated in the international literature. In this article we assess the impact of perceived safety on housing prices in the city of Stockholm, capital...

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Criminality spread : a "boomerang effect" of public transport improvements?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - 2013

The relationship between accessibility or the degree of improvement of urban transports and criminality was … Transmilenio system in Bogotá may share out criminality to other zones of the city. Negatives externalities like the better …

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