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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Avio, Kenneth L.
Otros Autores: Clark, C. Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1976.
Colección:Heritage.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • 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
  • A: Derivation of expected sentence lengths
  • B: Police and judicial crime classifications
  • C: Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations
  • D: Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations
  • E: Data sources
  • REFERENCES.