Property Crime in Canada

An Econometric Study

Kenneth Avio, C. Scott Clark (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

94 Seiten

1976
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-3334-5 (ISBN)

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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. Both the probability of apprehension and the probability of conviction are shown to have a substantial negative effect upon most kinds of property crime, with the conviction rate exhibiting the stronger influence. The generally significant inverse relationship between expected sentence length and the crime rate found by other researchers does not appear for the crimes investigated here. The results also indicate that estimating supply-of-offence functions over such aggregate categories as 'property crime' can lead to unjustified generalizations about particular types of crime.

Kenneth Avio is a professor emeritus of the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria. C. Scott Clark is an adjunct research professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2014
Reihe/Serie	Heritage
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	0-8020-3334-2 / 0802033342
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-3334-5 / 9780802033345
Zustand	Neuware