This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of …

This research shows that social capital is important in explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. Social … negatively correlated with current crime rates, after controlling for a range of contemporaneous socio-economic indicators. Next …

approach of the economics of crime. It was taken to the analysis the crimes of theft, robbery, and theft and robbery of … vehicles, as well as the aggregate of these three modalities of crime, all reported to the police in that important region. The … analysis was based on well known models in the fields of economics of crime and econometrics, capable to analyze the importance …

This paper empirically estimates disaggregated crime categories for Sabah from 1968 to 2006. The criminometric analysis … prison or courts related variables. In the long run we find that only robbery is exogenous in all crime model tested however …, the beyond sample estimation proves that in longer time period of approximately 50 years the post-sample dynamic VDCs …