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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?

Priks, Mikael (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496637

The sociology of crimes and punishments

Sarkar, Benoy Kumar - 1937

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Theft, gift-giving, and trustworthiness : honesty is its own reward in rural Paraguay

Schechter, Laura - In: The American economic review 97 (2007) 5, pp. 1560-1582

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Unemployment and gang crime : could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...