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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... police and judi- cial systems . The theoretical and empirical literature has considered the role of three types of economic conditions in determining the incidence of criminal activity , namely the average income of the communities ...
... police and judi- cial systems . The theoretical and empirical literature has considered the role of three types of economic conditions in determining the incidence of criminal activity , namely the average income of the communities ...
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... police presence , convic- tions , and the severity of punishments on the level of criminal activity . Individuals who are considering whether to commit crimes are assumed to evaluate both the risk of being caught and the associated ...
... police presence , convic- tions , and the severity of punishments on the level of criminal activity . Individuals who are considering whether to commit crimes are assumed to evaluate both the risk of being caught and the associated ...
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... and trade themselves , but also involve the element of violence and official cor- ruption required for them to carry on . □ 9 The strength of the police and the judicial 8 DETERMINANTS OF CRIME RATES LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD IN.
... and trade themselves , but also involve the element of violence and official cor- ruption required for them to carry on . □ 9 The strength of the police and the judicial 8 DETERMINANTS OF CRIME RATES LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD IN.
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... police and the judicial system ( JUST ) increases the probability of apprehension ( pr ) and the punishment ( pu ) for criminal actions , thus reducing the incentive for an individual to commit a crime . This is the crime deterrence ...
... police and the judicial system ( JUST ) increases the probability of apprehension ( pr ) and the punishment ( pu ) for criminal actions , thus reducing the incentive for an individual to commit a crime . This is the crime deterrence ...
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... police personnel per 100,000 inhabi- tants , and the 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 ...
... police personnel per 100,000 inhabi- tants , and the 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 ...
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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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