Buonanno, Paolo; Montolio, Daniel; Vanin, Paolo - Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali, Economiche e Metodi … - 2006
We investigate the effects of civic norms and associational networks on crime rates. Through their impact on trust and … economic development, civic norms may raise the expected returns to crime, but they may also increase its opportunity cost and … stable report rates for some forms of property crime. Once we address these problems, we find that both civic norms and …