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Geographical distribution of crime in Italian provinces: A spatial econometric analysis

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Uberti, Teodora Erika - 2008

For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist:...

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Crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece: a panel data approach

Saridakis, George; Spengler, Hannes - 2009

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional dataset over the period 1991-1998 was collected and analyzed. Our econometric methodology follows the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator applied to dynamic models of panel...

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Comparing the determinants of concern about terrorism and crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime,...

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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty

Bjerk, David - 2009

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover,...

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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?

Bjerk, David - 2009

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For … individual choice. This issue can cloud causal interpretations of correlations between the treatment and criminality since those … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …

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The impact of unilateral divorce on crime

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2008

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of unilateral divorce on crime. First, using crime rates from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report program for the period 1965-1998 and differences in the timing in the introduction of the reform, we find that unilateral divorce has a positive impact on violent...

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Obecność cudzoziemców na targowisku zlokalizowanym wokół Stadionu Dziesięciolecia z perspektywy kryminologicznej

Szulecka, Monika - 2007

The scope of this paper is the market place located in the area of 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw, existing since 1989. Apart from the short characteristics and history of the object, in general the paper presents apects ot the market's functioning which refer to the multinational structure...

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The engine immobilizer: A non-starter for car thieves

Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - 2013

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...

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Non-production benefits of education: Crime, health, and good citizenship

Lochner, Lance - 2010

Economists have long recognized and measured the effect of education on an individual's own lifetime earnings. More recently, attention has been paid to the effects of education on other personal and social outcomes, such as criminal behavior, health and mortality, and voting and democratic...

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Education policy and crime

Lochner, Lance - 2010

This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first...

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