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The mapping of crime and delinquency has been around for many years and the idea that delinquency is caused by … to show spatial distributions of delinquency and crime. Istanbul has been a strategically important location, physically … beauties, and wealth of cultural heritage. Istanbul has experienced increasingly high crime rates. This study demonstrates …
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It has often been observed that there is substantial spatial variation in criminality, i.e. criminality clusters in neighborhoods. Differences in neighborhood characteristics are one possible reason, social interactions another. In this paper we use detailed data on the residential location of...
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This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French … economics of crime literature is then twofold. First, I show that neighborhood characteristics are important determinants of … crime victimization. In particular, local unemployment rate is found to be one of the most important factor explaining …
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Illegal activities harm individuals and society as a whole. Besides the physical harm and immediate wealth loss, crime … evidence that the surge of crime rates in Mexico contributed to higher incidence of major depressive disorder in the population …. Focusing on Mexico allows us to analyse how a sudden, arguable exogenous shock on overall crime rates in the 2000s, namely the …
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. Second, the use of cash in crime, here especially in corruption, is also econometrically investigated. The influence is … about organized crime are also shown; the importance of cash is diminishing. Third, some remarks about terrorism are made … a minor influence on the shadow economy, crime and terrorism, but potentially a major influence on civil liberties. …
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crime con guration on a city. The hypothesis that the probability to have transports improvements in a zone depend on some … crime. Likewise, spatial econometrics results expose that crime tends to be contagious on neighboring zones. The presence of …
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through taxing the crime externalities generated by some private leisure activities, this article analyzes the effect of … football matches on crime focusing both on property crimes and interpersonal violent crimes. Our aim is to determine up to what … extent a private leisure activity, such as football matches, induces negative crime externalities to the whole society. Using …
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