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corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption … corruption, implying, corruption-control offsets crime emanating beyond the corruption mechanism (inter alia, other poor …
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This paper empirically estimates disaggregated crime categories for Sabah from 1968 to 2006. The criminometric analysis … prison or courts related variables. In the long run we find that only robbery is exogenous in all crime model tested however … imply that a substantial portion of the variance of the forecast error of these crime are explained by their explanatory …
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quality-of-life/environmental factors such as warm weather, lower crime rates, and greater availability of medical care …
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The study investigates whether crime in Turkey is governed by economic rationality. An economic model of rational … less obvious target groups, while the potential relationship between population density and crime is ambiguous. Finally …
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We evaluate the association between foster care placement during childhood and adult criminality. In contrast to previous studies, we allow associations to vary by gender and age at initial placement. We find that foster care predicts higher adult criminality for males first placed during...
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In this paper, we test the hypothesis that access to electronic payments may reduce crime. Our results suggest that … of cashless transactions have the desired impact of deterring crime. …
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This paper presents a model to generate dynamic patterns of maritime piracy. Model details, outputs and calibration are illustrated. The model presented here is a tool to estimate the number of pirates and their area of action. The Gulf of Aden is considered as a case study, and data on pirate...
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paper can contribute to a more accurate descriptive statistics of crime. …
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might be worth considering as an approach to reducing juvenile crime. The author finds some evidence that higher …-quality schools are associated with lower probabilities of committing some types of crime. …
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A dynamic general equilibrium model of larceny – or property crime – is presented in which both economic conditions and …
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