Development, crime and punishment: accounting for the international differences in crime rates

By Rodrigo R. Soares. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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What causes violent crime (2002, methodology): “Soares (1999), using victimization rates derived from national surveys, also "nds a signi"cant crime-inducing e!ect of income inequality.”
Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors (2010, methodology): “…in Lorentzen, McMillan, and Wacziarg (2008, table 10, column [1]), using mortality due to violence from the WHO and population fractions from the World Development Indicators (WDI) (estimate presented as the yearly cost in terms of current GDP corresponding to the loss in growth induced by the…”
Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime (2015, background): “Fajnzylber et al. (2002) and Soares (2004) also find similar results using country-level, international panel data.”
What Do Corruption Indices Measure (2014, background): “See also Tavits (2007). Kaplan and Pathania (2010) study how GDP growth affects firms’ perceptions of infrastructural and institutional constraints.”
Socio-Cultural Variables and Economic Success: Evidence from Italian Provinces 1951-1991 (2004, background): “In a recent study Soares (2004) compares victimization surveys and official statistics and finds that the extent of under-reporting crimes such as thefts, burglaries and assault crimes in less developed countries is up to ten times larger than in more developed ones.”
Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil (2016, background): “If the network or reference group of youth is affected by school enrollment and attendance, then staying in school may have positive peer effects (Glaeser et al, 1996, and Lochner, 2010), despite the higher probability of attrition between youths.”
Crime Reporting as a Measure of Institutional Development* (2004, background): “These data are reported by the countries’ justice systems themselves, and, for that reason, they are contaminated by the problem of underreporting discussed in the criminology literature and analyzed by Soares (2004).”