Violent Crime: Does Social Capital Matter?*

By D. Lederman, Norman V. Loayza, A. Menéndez. Economic development and cultural change, 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Cross-National Predictors of Crime: A Meta-Analysis (2011, background): “Agha 2009 Krohn 1978 Altheimer 2007 Krohn and Wellford 1977 Altheimer 2008 LaFree and Kick 1986 Antonaccio and Tittle 2007 Lederman, Loayza, and Menendez 2002 Austin and Kim 1999 Lee 2001 Avison and Loring 1986 Lee and Bankston 1999 Babones 2008 Li 1995 Barber 2009 Lin 2007 Barber 2004 Messner 1982…”
Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison (2007, background): “Another fact indicating validity is that generalized trust is a robust determinant of aggregate behavioral features such as corruption or the prevalence of violent crime (Lederman et al., 2002; Uslaner, 2002).”
Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution (2002, background): “LaFree and Drass (1996) report evidence of a positive effect of income inequality on homicide rates in a single-nation timeseries analysis for the United States.”
Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa (2002, background): “Lederman et al. (2001) argue that increases in income inequality and lower growth rates lead to increases in violent crime across countries.”
The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands ∗ (2008, result): “22 Our findings are in line with previous research that reports negative effects for trust, civicness and electoral turnout (e.g., Sampson and Groves, 1989; Rosenfeld et al., 2001; Lederman et al., 2002; Saegert et al., 2002; Messner et al., 2004; Buonanno et al., 2009); a positive correlation betwe”
Dimensions of Social Capital and Rates of Criminal Homicide (2004, background): “Similar to the findings by Rosenfeld et al. (2001), Lederman et al. (2002) show that the effect of trust is robust when possible reciprocal effects are controlled with the use of instrumental variables.”
What Have We Learned About Generalized Trust, If Anything? (2008, background): “…to correlate acceptably well across countries with a number of indicators of levels of trustworthiness, such as the proportion of wallets returned intact in wallet-dropping experiments (Bjørnskov 2007), or the prevalence of corruption (Uslaner 2002) and of violent crime (Lederman et al. 2002).”
Social Disorganization, Social Capital, Collective Efficacy and the Spatial Distribution of Crime and Offenders An Empirical Test of Six Neighbourhood Models for a Dutch City (2013, background): “A community’s social capital will increase as trust, reciprocity and formal networks between residents (civic engagement or organizational participation) are embedded more deeply into the social relationships of a community (Lederman et al. 2002).”