The "São Paulo Mystery" : the role of the criminal organization PCC in reducing the homicide in 2000s

Marcelo Justus, Daniel Ricardo de Castro Cerqueira, Tulio Kahn, Gustavo Carvalho Moreira

We move forward in identifying the causes of the marked and systematic reduction in the homicide rate in São Paulo state in the 2000s. Its main objective was that of investigating the role of the criminal organization PCC in this process. We constructed a first-difference fixed effects model with a spatial structure where we controlled for various socioeconomic and demographic measures and for the presence of firearms and law-enforcement, among other measures. Our results do not support the PCC hypothesis at the level of the state of São Paulo.

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Year of publication:	2018
Authors:	Justus, Marcelo ; Cerqueira, Daniel ; Kahn, Tulio ; Moreira, Gustavo Carvalho
Published in:	Economia : revista da ANPEC. - Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald, ISSN 2358-2820, ZDB-ID 2451788-4. - Vol. 19.2018, 2, p. 201-218
Subject:	Criminal organization \| Homicide \| Violence \| Kriminalität \| Crime \| Gewalt \| Organisierte Kriminalität \| Organized crime \| Kriminalitätsökonomik \| Economics of crime \| Kriminalpolitik \| Criminal policy

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1016/j.econ.2018.02.003 [DOI] hdl:10419/266919 [Handle]
Classification:	K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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