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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... individual - level analysis of the incentives to commit crimes , and then considers time effects . Under a couple of assumptions , the model provides a framework to analyze the empirical determinants of national crime rates . Section IV ...
... individual - level analysis of the incentives to commit crimes , and then considers time effects . Under a couple of assumptions , the model provides a framework to analyze the empirical determinants of national crime rates . Section IV ...
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... individuals become criminals because of the financial and other rewards from crime compared to legal work , taking ... individual is not the only rele- vant " income " factor ; the income level of poten- tial victims also matters . The ...
... individuals become criminals because of the financial and other rewards from crime compared to legal work , taking ... individual is not the only rele- vant " income " factor ; the income level of poten- tial victims also matters . The ...
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... Individuals who are considering whether to commit crimes are assumed to evaluate both the risk of being caught and the associated punishment . The empirical evidence from the United States confirmed that both factors have a negative ...
... Individuals who are considering whether to commit crimes are assumed to evaluate both the risk of being caught and the associated punishment . The empirical evidence from the United States confirmed that both factors have a negative ...
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... individual's expected utility from illegal income will be affected by his / her tastes for the risk involved . Becker ( 1968 , 178 ) and Ehrlich ( 1973 , 528 ) , for example , established that a risk - neutral offender will tend to ...
... individual's expected utility from illegal income will be affected by his / her tastes for the risk involved . Becker ( 1968 , 178 ) and Ehrlich ( 1973 , 528 ) , for example , established that a risk - neutral offender will tend to ...
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... individual's perceived probability of apprehension depends on society's crime rate ) , Glaeser et al . ( 1996 ) argued that " local " inter- actions among individuals act through the trans- fer of information between agents regarding ...
... individual's perceived probability of apprehension depends on society's crime rate ) , Glaeser et al . ( 1996 ) argued that " local " inter- actions among individuals act through the trans- fer of information between agents regarding ...
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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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