Han, Lu; Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Bhattacharya, Samrat - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2011
crime-specific detection rate and prison population, and various socio-economic variables such as unemployment rate, real … and prison population leads to lower property and violent crimes. This is robust to various specifications. However, socio-economic … variables with the exception of real earnings play a limited role in explaining different crime types. …