In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that--at least for the case of … property crime--the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in … plausible hypotheses. On the whole, our results imply that urban crime in Latin America is, to an important extent, a reflection …

The ‘flight from blight’ and related literatures on urban population changes and crime have primarily considered times … of high or increasing crime rates. Perhaps the most cited recent work in this area, Cullen and Levitt (1999), does not … extend through 1990s, a decade during which crime rates declined almost continuously, to levels that were lower than …