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 from 1976 to 2008 and prefectural panel data from 1975 to 2005. An analysis using time-series data shows that an increase in unemployment rates raises crime rates, while the...