Buonanno, Paolo; Pasini, Giacomo; Vanin, Paolo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2008
Social sanctions may be a strong deterrent of crime. This paper presents a formal model that relates crime and social sanction to social interaction density. We empirically test the theoretical predictions using a provincial level panel dataset on dierent crimes in Italy between 1996 and 2003....