The relationship between inequality and crime has been of long-standing interest to social scientists of various disciplines. While theorical work from both economics and sociology postulates a positive link between the two, the empirical evidence is rather inconclusive and typically focuses on...

This paper investigates the relationship between socio-economic inequalities of various dimensions and crime at the local level in South Africa. It uses a novel panel dataset of police precincts that combines crime records from the South African Police Service with socio-economic data from two...