The Socioeconomic Cost of Crime

Subject Barranquilla is adopting a hard line approach to tackling crime Significance Soldiers began street patrols on January 1 in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla where the murder rate is at its highest level since 2007. To reduce violence and street crime, Barranquilla's incoming mayor Alejandro Char has announced a series of security measures, including the use of military units to police the city's worst-affected areas. Such initiatives aim to reduce the human cost of crime and to prevent deteriorating security from undermining efforts to expand international trade in the city's free trade zone. Impacts Increased numbers of military checkpoints will likely result in delays for goods transported through Barranquilla. Should military intervention prove an effective means of combating crime in the city, a similar model may be employed in other areas. However, a militarisation of policing could backfire, leading to increased violence and a discrediting of the armed forces.

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Immigration Enforcement and Crime

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.p20151040 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 105 (5) ◽

pp. 205-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Paolo Pinotti

Keyword(s):

Opportunity Cost ◽

Crime Rate ◽

Undocumented Immigrants ◽

Migration Policy ◽

The Other ◽

Immigration Enforcement ◽

Illegal Migration ◽

Bilateral Agreements ◽

Cost Of Crime ◽

The One

Immigration enforcement has ambiguous implications for the crime rate of undocumented immigrants. On the one hand, expulsions reduce the pool of immigrants at risk of committing crimes, on the other they lower the opportunity cost of crime for those who are not expelled. We estimate the effect of expulsions on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in Italy exploiting variation in enforcement toward immigrants of different nationality, due to the existence of bilateral agreements for the control of illegal migration. We find that stricter enforcement of migration policy reduces the crime rate of undocumented immigrants.

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Report on the Cost of Crime: Comment

Michigan Law Review ◽

10.2307/1280639 ◽

1931 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 74

Author(s):

Herbert F. Taggart

Keyword(s):

Cost Of Crime ◽

The Cost

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The Link Between Economic Growth, Crime and Deterrence Measures in Nigeria

Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis” Arad – Economics Series ◽

10.1515/sues-2016-0017 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 24-40

Author(s):

Adenuga Fabian Adekoya ◽

Nor Azam Abdul Razak

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Rational Choice Theory ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Distributed Lag ◽

Distributed Lag Model ◽

Autoregressive Distributed Lag ◽

Cost Of Crime ◽

Lag Model ◽

The Government ◽

The Cost

Abstract The level of crime in Nigeria has become devastating and in order to put more sanity into the economy and the country at large, the Government has embarked on different deterrence measures in curbing crime. Thus, this study examined the interaction of deterrence measures with crime in order to see how economic growth was affected when they were used in curbing crime at different instances. That is, the interaction of deterrence measures with crime informed us how they have helped in lowering crime in Nigeria for a better economic growth to subsist. The deterrence measures considered in this work are in line with the rational choice theory being the cost of crime imposed on the society. Furthermore, this study considered data from 1975 to 2013 with the use of autoregressive distributed lag model. Moreover, the results showed that crime dependency on deterrence measures asymmetrically constituted means of lowering economic growth in the country. Hence, this study suggested that prosecution should be well funded and in order to curb crime and improve economic growth in Nigeria. That is, this would afford the country to reduce the congestion of prison inmates and thus, it would discourage long waiting trials.

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