Ohtake, Fumio; Kohara, Miki - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2010
This paper examines the effect of unemployment rates on crime rates, using two types of Japanese data: time-series data … in unemployment rates raises crime rates, while the number of police officers decreases them. It should be noted, however … results; however, the increase in poverty rates raises crime rates more than the increase in unemployment. Our empirical …