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Property Crime in Canada : An Econometric Study /

This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2. Both the probability of apprehension and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Avio, Kenneth (Autor), Clark, C. Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Heritage
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The extent of property crime in Canada
  • 2. The economic model of crime
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Empirical results
  • 5. Range of elasticities for 'true' offence rates: an illustration
  • 6. Conclusion and recommendations for future research
  • Appendices
  • APPENDIX A. Derivation of expected sentence lengths
  • APPENDIX B. Police and judicial crime classifications
  • APPENDIX C. Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations
  • APPENDIX D. Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations
  • APPENDIX E. Data sources
  • References