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shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …
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This paper studies the spatial effects of demographic changes, education conditions and conflict situation on the spatial persistence in the municipal homicide rate in Colombia, as a result of shock increases in the displaced population and local residents between 15-29 years old, the education...
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The steadily growing access to high-quality spatio-temporal crime count data with a high level of spatial detail allows … to uncover interesting relationships between crime types within and between small regional units. Data coherent … methods of moments. The models’ usefulness is demonstrated in a forecasting exercise of monthly crime counts at census tract …
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This paper studies the spatial effects of demographic changes, education conditions and conflict situation on the spatial persistence in the municipal homicide rate in Colombia, as a result of shock increases in the displaced population and local residents between 15-29 years old, the education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982487
crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury …
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levels of crime and local residential ownership rates. In the framework of a linear regression model and based on Danish … municipality data, we establish empirical evidence for a negative relationship between local home ownership rates and local crime …
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and envy within the family, to explore hate crimes, also known as bias-motivated crimes. After developing a hate crime … economic framework, we make use of a unique data set on hate crime data compiled by the FBI since 1992 to estimate the … the use of bias-motivation crime data in empirical analysis, we are able to uncover interesting and thought …
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This paper contributes new evidence relating to the hypothesis that there has been convergence between certain male and female offences over time. Using time-series data for adults charged with offences in Canada over the period 1983 to 2000, we conduct several formal econometric tests of the...
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This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …
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explore the degree to which individuals respond to crime by applying for permits to legally carry concealed firearms. We find … specific circumstances of crime incidents and the characteristics of responsive applicants. Our results show that gun …
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