Acampora, Michelle; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2020 - This version: February 2020
We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use … of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative … deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At …