Property Crime in Canada : An Econometric Study /

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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
Autores principales: Avio, Kenneth L., 1942-, Clark, Cecil Scott, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : Published for the Ontario Economic Council by University of Toronto Press, 1976.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Offenses against property > Mathematical models.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
Infractions contre la propriete > Canada > Modeles mathematiques.
Offenses against property > Canada > Mathematical models.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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

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