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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... incidence of criminal and violent behavior . Rampant criminal behavior is a major concern in a variety of countries , ranging from the United States to the so - called transition economies of Eastern Europe and the developing countries ...
... incidence of criminal and violent behavior . Rampant criminal behavior is a major concern in a variety of countries , ranging from the United States to the so - called transition economies of Eastern Europe and the developing countries ...
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... incidence of criminal activity , namely the average income of the communities involved , the pattern of income distribution , and the level of education . Fleisher ( 1966 ) was a pioneer in studying the role of income on the decision to ...
... incidence of criminal activity , namely the average income of the communities involved , the pattern of income distribution , and the level of education . Fleisher ( 1966 ) was a pioneer in studying the role of income on the decision to ...
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... incidence of criminal activity . However , after controlling for income inequality and median income , Ehrlich ( 1975a , 333 ) found a positive and significant rela- tionship between the average number of school years completed by the ...
... incidence of criminal activity . However , after controlling for income inequality and median income , Ehrlich ( 1975a , 333 ) found a positive and significant rela- tionship between the average number of school years completed by the ...
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... incidence of criminal activity over time . Davis ( 1988 ) , for example , considers a model where the probability of a criminal being caught at any point in time is positively related to both the intensity of the individual's criminal ...
... incidence of criminal activity over time . Davis ( 1988 ) , for example , considers a model where the probability of a criminal being caught at any point in time is positively related to both the intensity of the individual's criminal ...
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... incidence explained to some extent by its past incidence . The level and growth of economic activity ( EA ) in society create attractive oppor- tunities for employment in the legal sector ( higher w ) but , since they also improve the ...
... incidence explained to some extent by its past incidence . The level and growth of economic activity ( EA ) in society create attractive oppor- tunities for employment in the legal sector ( higher w ) but , since they also improve the ...
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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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