What causes violent crime

By Pablo Fajnzylber, D. Lederman, Norman V. Loayza. 2002

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Subfields: Modeling and Simulation, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors (2010, neutral): “Detailed reviews of the criminology literature are presented in Patterson (1991) and Fowles and Merva (1996). The statistical approaches used in the different studies and their respective conclusions are as diverse as they could possibly be.”
A random walk in the literature on criminality: A partial and critical view on some statistical analyses and modelling approaches (2010, positive): “…of crime), Entorf and Spengler (2000) [34] conclude that higher income and also higher urbanization are associated with higher crime rates, while Fajnzylber et al (2002) [36], based on data of homicide and robbery from ≈ 45 countries over 1970-1994, conclude that average income is not…”
Poverty and Witch Killing (2005, background): “them, and pin blame on a particular person rather than on chance ( Evans-Pritchard 1937, Ashforth”
Violent Crime: Does Social Capital Matter?* (2002, background): “According to cross-country studies, income inequality, per capita GDP growth, and the quality of police and justice systems are important determinants of the incidence of violent crime.(9) It is very likely”
Income inequality and violent crime : evidence from Mexico's drug war (2014, neutral): “Neumayer (2005) directly calls into question the results of Fajnzylber, Lederman, and Loayza (2002b), arguing that, by increasing the sample size of countries, inequality—measured by the Gini coefficient—is no longer statistically significant in predicting violent crime.6 Moreover, Pridemore (2011)…”
The Externalities of Inequality: Fear of Crime and Preferences for Redistribution in Western Europe (2016, background): “9 More recently, Fajnzylber et al. (2002b) use panel data for more than 37 industrialized and non-industrialized countries from the early 1970s until the mid-1990s to explore the relationship between inequality and violent crime.”
Are U.S. Cities Underpoliced? Theory and Evidence (2017, background): “Suppose society consists of n identical individuals, each of whom confronts a probability of criminal victimization φ(S), where S is the number of police employed by the government.5 Each individual faces a victimization cost of k and has assets A that could be spent on consumption.”
Earthquake Fatalities: The Interaction of Nature and Political Economy (2005, background): “activities to mitigate, if not prevent, these criminal activities (see Fajnzylber et al (2002) and”