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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... mean legitimate oppor- tunities available to potential offenders , " may be approximated by , " the mean income level of those below the state's median [ income ] " ( p . 539 ) . For a given median income , income inequality can be an ...
... mean legitimate oppor- tunities available to potential offenders , " may be approximated by , " the mean income level of those below the state's median [ income ] " ( p . 539 ) . For a given median income , income inequality can be an ...
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... means for controlling these types of crime than deterrence policies . However , if property offend- ers respond readily to economic incentives , the argument would be the opposite . Since most forms of punishment that inca- pacitate ...
... means for controlling these types of crime than deterrence policies . However , if property offend- ers respond readily to economic incentives , the argument would be the opposite . Since most forms of punishment that inca- pacitate ...
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... means that the costs of carrying out criminal acts , c , may decline over time . Third , people tend to have a reduced moral threshold , m , after having joined the crime industry . The past incidence of crime in society ( D ) , through ...
... means that the costs of carrying out criminal acts , c , may decline over time . Third , people tend to have a reduced moral threshold , m , after having joined the crime industry . The past incidence of crime in society ( D ) , through ...
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... Mean Standard Deviation Min . Max . No. of Countries Crime Rates : * Intentional Homicides 1579 6.834 Robbery 1251 55.902 11.251 95.973 0 0 142.014 676.840 128 120 Per 100,000 inhabitants , annual data . with a notable acceleration ...
... Mean Standard Deviation Min . Max . No. of Countries Crime Rates : * Intentional Homicides 1579 6.834 Robbery 1251 55.902 11.251 95.973 0 0 142.014 676.840 128 120 Per 100,000 inhabitants , annual data . with a notable acceleration ...
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... means that current explanatory variables may be affected by past and current crime rates but not by future crime ... mean that the obser- vations of X lagged one or more periods are valid instruments for the corresponding contem ...
... means that current explanatory variables may be affected by past and current crime rates but not by future crime ... mean that the obser- vations of X lagged one or more periods are valid instruments for the corresponding contem ...
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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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