Does Social Capital Reduce Crime?

By P. Buonanno, Daniel Montolio, Paolo Vanin. Journal law and economy, 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Climate Risk, Cooperation and the Co-Evolution of Culture and Institutions (2017, background): “Social capital and trust have been associated with economic growth (Helliwell and Putnam, 1995; Knack and Keefer, 1997; Zak and Knack, 2001; Algan and Cahuc, 2014), well-functioning institutions (Knack, 2002), low corruption and crime (Uslaner, 2002; Buonanno et al., 2009), financial development (Gu”
• Risk, Cooperation and the Economic origins of social Trust: an empirical Investigation (2009, neutral): “” Other influential contributions on the role of social capital and social trust are Coleman (1988), Putnam et al. (1993) and Fukuyama (1996).”
• Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party (2017, neutral): “Several prior studies of social capital use association density as a measure (Buonanno, Montolio, and Vanin 2009; Schofer and Longhofer 2011).”
• The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands ∗ (2008, background): “Similarly, Bursik and Grasmick (1993) argue that the effectiveness of law enforcement and public control is higher in communities with extensive civic engagement.”
• Social Capital and Debt Contracting: Evidence from Bank Loans and Public Bonds (2017, neutral): “…that has been studied extensively in the social sciences (Coleman (1988), Putnam (1993)) and shown to have positive economic benefits for societies, communities, organizations, and individuals (Fukuyama (1995), Knack and Keefer (1997), Putnam (2001), and Buonanno, Montolio, and Vanin (2009)).”
• Can Cultural Norms Reduce Conflicts? Confucianism and Peasant Rebellions in (2014, background): “There is now evidence suggesting that Christian beliefs have the similarly pacifying effect of subduing the taste for revolts (MacCulloch and Pezzini, 2010), just as the fear of social stigmatization and ostracism has a deterring effect on criminal behaviors (Buonanno et al., 2009).”