7. Property Crime (Shoplifting and Auto Theft) along the Border (with Jesse Garcia and Hector Garcia)

2006 ◽  
pp. 190-214
Keyword(s):  
Property Crime ◽  
Auto Theft

scholarly journals The Effect of Income Inequality on Property Crime: Evidence from Iran

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 245-251
Author(s):  
Najmeh Izadi
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Inequality Aversion ◽  
Auto Theft ◽  
Correction Model ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
Atkinson Index ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Relationship

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between income inequality and property crime rate, including auto theft, burglary and larceny, in Iran from 1984 to 2009. Income inequality measures include Gini coefficient and Atkinson index, with 1 and 2 degrees of inequality aversion (e=1, 2). Unrestricted error correction model (UECM)is employed to do bounds test and to examine the presence of cointegration. The results indicate that there is not any long-run relationship between income inequality and property crime rate.

Incarceration and Crime

2016 ◽  
Vol 664 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Lofstrom ◽  
Steven Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
County Level ◽  
Auto Theft ◽  
Incarceration Rate ◽  
Synthetic Cohort ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
The U.S

Recent reforms in California caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the state’s incarceration rate. We evaluate the effects of that incarceration decline on local crime rates. Our analysis exploits the large variation across California counties in the effect of this reform on county-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence that the large reduction in California incarceration had an effect on violent crime, and modest evidence of effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably smaller than existing estimates based on panel data for periods of time when the U.S. incarceration rate was considerably lower. We corroborate these cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California. The statewide analysis confirms our findings from the county-level analysis. In line with with previous research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with increased reliance on incarceration.

scholarly journals The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bindler ◽  
Randi Hjalmarsson
Keyword(s):  
Property Crime ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Metropolitan Police ◽  
Police Data ◽  
Reporting Rates ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Police Forces

Abstract This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police – the first professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-in-differences and pre-post designs, we find evidence of a significant reduction in violent crimes (despite the possibility of off-setting increases in clearance and reporting rates). In contrast, a reduction in property crime is not visible

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