The objective of this paper is to measure the effect of wealth on property victimization risk. Using data from two household victimization surveys conducted in São Paulo city and a measure of spending as a proxy for wealth observed by criminals, the conclusion was reached that wealth level is...

Utilizando o estimador system GMM (Arellano e Bover 1995; Blundell e Bond 1998), neste artigo, testa-se a hipótese de que existe efeito inércia" nas taxas de crimes violentos letais e intencionais nos estados brasileiros. Estima-se que, aproximadamente, metade da criminalidade de um período se...