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How do Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions affect crime? : evidence from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bullock, Jessie; Pellegrino, Ana Paula - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 147-163

How do changes in mobility impact crime? Using police precinct-level daily crime statistics and shootings data from the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we estimate that extortion, theft, and robberies decrease by at least 41.6% following COVID-19 mandated stay-at-home orders and changes in...

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

Justus, Marcelo; Cerqueira, Daniel; Kahn, Tulio; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 19 (2018) 2, pp. 201-218

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...

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Evidence of the effect of wealth observed by criminals on the risk of becoming a victim of property crimes

Justus, Marcelo; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 14 (2013) 2, pp. 88-101

The objective of this paper is to measure the effect of wealth on property victimization risk. Using data from two household victimization surveys conducted in São Paulo city and a measure of spending as a proxy for wealth observed by criminals, the conclusion was reached that wealth level is...

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Relationship between income and repeat criminal victimization in Brazil

Justus, Marcelo; Kahn, Tulio; Kawamura, Henrique Coelho - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 3, pp. 295-309

This study analyzes the effect of income on repeat criminal victimization in Brazil using data from the 2009 National Household Sample Survey and its special supplement on victimization and access to justice. Two count-data models were estimated for four types of crime: theft, robbery, attempted...

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The interiorization of Brazilian violence, policing, and economic growth

Steeves, Geoffrey M.; Petterini, Francis Carlo; Moura, … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 3, pp. 359-375

Brazil's violence is changing. Recent analyses highlight a trend of dispersion of violence such that homicide rates in urban … violence and economic activity, and also generates a proxy to measure the geographic concentration of police forces. Using … panel data across all 26 states from 1995 to 2011, we find evidence of a correlation between dispersion of violence and GDP …

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Nonlinear relationship between income, age and criminal victimization in Brazil

Sant'Anna, E.; Scorzafave, Luiz Guilherme; Justus, M. - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 185-198

This study was mainly intended to investigate the effects of the income and age of individuals on their risk of becoming victims of physical assault, theft, robbery and attempted theft or robbery. Specifically, we were looking for evidence for a nonlinear relationship between these variables and...

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