Determinants of Crime Rates in Latin America and the World: An Empirical AssessmentWorld Bank Publications, 1998 M01 1 - 44 pages A growing concern in most regions of the world is the heightened incidence of criminal and violent behavior, especially in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. This study uses a new data set of crime rates for a large sample of countries to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates. The authors describe a simple model of "incentives to commit crimes" by estimating several econometric models and utilizing empirical models to draw their conclusions. |
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... convictions to affect the probability of a new conviction when a past offender commits new crimes , as well as the severity of the corresponding punishment . In Leung's ( 1995 ) model , past criminal records also reduce the returns from ...
... convictions to affect the probability of a new conviction when a past offender commits new crimes , as well as the severity of the corresponding punishment . In Leung's ( 1995 ) model , past criminal records also reduce the returns from ...
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... conviction rate ) and the extent of under - reporting of crime rates . Figure 1 shows the evolution of the popula- tion - weighted average rate of intentional homi- cides in the group of 34 countries for which there was data available ...
... conviction rate ) and the extent of under - reporting of crime rates . Figure 1 shows the evolution of the popula- tion - weighted average rate of intentional homi- cides in the group of 34 countries for which there was data available ...
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... conviction rate of the correspond- ing crime , defined as the ratio of the number of convictions to the number of reported occur- rences of each type of crime , both of which were constructed on the basis of data provided by the United ...
... conviction rate of the correspond- ing crime , defined as the ratio of the number of convictions to the number of reported occur- rences of each type of crime , both of which were constructed on the basis of data provided by the United ...
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... Rate .002 .001 .003 .002 .001 .001 .004 ( .329 ) ( .694 ) ( .090 ) ( .359 ) ( .616 ) ( .758 ) ( .127 ) Income Share of the Poorest Quintile -20.405 ( .001 ) Secondary Enrollment Rate Police .009 ( .314 ) -.001 ( .214 ) Conviction Rate ...
... Rate .002 .001 .003 .002 .001 .001 .004 ( .329 ) ( .694 ) ( .090 ) ( .359 ) ( .616 ) ( .758 ) ( .127 ) Income Share of the Poorest Quintile -20.405 ( .001 ) Secondary Enrollment Rate Police .009 ( .314 ) -.001 ( .214 ) Conviction Rate ...
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... rate ( or the flow of human capital ) instead of the attainment variable . Contrary to our expectations , the coefficient of the enrollment rate ... Conviction Rate -.003 -.001 ( .697 ) ( .885 ) Death Penalty Index of Ethno - Linguistic ...
... rate ( or the flow of human capital ) instead of the attainment variable . Contrary to our expectations , the coefficient of the enrollment rate ... Conviction Rate -.003 -.001 ( .697 ) ( .885 ) Death Penalty Index of Ethno - Linguistic ...
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Asia Dummy average Caribbean coefficient Colombia commit a crime common religion conviction rate crime industry criminal activity criminal behavior criminal inertia cross-sectional regressions death penalty decision to commit determinants of crime deterrence effects Developing Countries DiCristina Drug Possession Crimes Drug Producers Dummy Dummy for Developing econometric Ehrlich empirical error term Europe and Central explanatory variables GDP growth rate Gini Coefficient Gini index GNP per Capita Guyana homicide and robbery incidence income inequality increase individual individual's instruments Intentional Homicide Rates joint endogeneity lagged crime rate lagged homicide rate largest number Latin America level of education Loayza Log of GNP measurement errors mis-measurement national crime rates Number of Observations p-value panel data police population Possession Crimes Rate proxy reported crime robbery rates Sargan Secondary Enrollment Rate serially correlated Shahid Javed Burki significant statistically strictly exogenous Sub-Saharan Africa tion under-reporting United Nations unobserved country-specific effects urbanization rate World Bank World Crime Surveys
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