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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Property crime."”.
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An analysis of gender differences in property crime arrest rates
… relationship between employment conditions and property-crime arrest rates of working-aged individuals, using gender-specific state-level data from 1979-2001, complied from raw arrest data of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and the Census Bureau's annual March Current Population Survey. These …
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IDENTIFYING A PREDICTABLE PROPERTY CRIME TREND MODEL IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
This research examines the association of property crime sub-groups at police force district or basic command unit level, using official monthly police statistics and official claimant count (unemployment) data. The research focused on the region of the North East of England, encompassing the …
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An ecological adjusted random effect model for violent and property crime in Windhoek (2011-2016)
… ecological factors influencing Violent and Property crime in Windhoek by using data obtained from the Windhoek police over the period of six consecutive years (20 I I to 20 16). The ecological concepts were measured at several different levels of aggregation. Limited studies in Windhoek have …
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Community structure and criminal victimization
This research has attempted to better understand property crime victimization by studying the important role of community structures, while controlling for the following demographic variables: age, gender, race, and income. Three different types of analyses were used: (1) bivariate analysis; (2) …
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND OTHER EXOGENOUS FACTORS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION ON FEMALE PROPERTY CRIME OFFENDING ACROSS US CITIES: A RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DISAGGREGATED ANALYSIS
… indicators on female non-violent and violent property crime offending. This dissertation found that economic marginality, gender inequality, and exogenous factors of social disorganization do explain some of the variation in women's offending. Economic marginality predicted total women's …
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Assessing the Effects of Social Disorganization on Crime in Texas Border Counties: A Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis from 1990 to 2007
… between structural factors and juvenile property crime in the 43 counties that form the Texas border region over an 18 year period. Measures are included for per capita income, unemployment, ethnic heterogeneity, residential instability, and urbanization, and fixed-effects panel …
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Local Economic Investment and Crime: Neighborhood Change in Washington, DC
… between large-scale economic investment and crime in Washington, DC neighborhood clusters (N=39) from 2001 to 2007. Using panel data and a two-way fixed effects analytic strategy, results indicate that investment in large scale economic development projects (in millions of dollars) and crime …
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Essays on the economics of crime and econometric methodology
… this thesis covers two topics: the economics of crime and econometric methodology. The first chapter addresses the question of whether higher wages reduce teenage crime rates. I exploit exogenous variation in the wages of teenagers resulting from federal minimum wage legislation. Instrumental …
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The Economics of Crime: Exploring the Impact of Psychedelics, Gun Liability Insurance, and Zero-Bail Policies on Crime
… liability mandates, and zero cash bail, on crime outcomes in California. It aims to inform evidence-based policymaking by leveraging quasi-experimental methods to identify the causal impact of each intervention. A growing number of U.S. jurisdictions have decriminalized psychedelic …
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Examining Social Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment Using the Work of Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam
… residents can have an impact on the amount of crime that occurs within their own neighborhood. While previous criminological research has identified a negative relationship between the levels of social capital and victimization within neighborhoods, these studies often used different …
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Three Essays on Crime
… the tools of economics to analyze two forms of crime --- property and violent crime --- in order to investigate three specific incentives that induce them. First, I develop a property crime model with secondary markets for stolen durable goods where agents can be thieves who steal durable goods …
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Immigration and Crime: A Microeconometric Study
Although the relationship between immigration and crime has been a very controversial subject in the UK, the empirical evidence is limited. This thesis intends to narrow this gap by providing a comprehensive investigation for England and Wales of immigrants’ both active and passive involvement in …
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Three essays on the welfare and social impacts of external shocks and public policies in Mexico
… aggressive policy intervention on organized and property crime.
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Religion and differential justice.
… the effects of county-level affiliation rates on crime rates in the South. Applying spatial analyses to data from the 2010 Religious Census and Uniform Crime Reports, Black Protestant affiliation rates were found to be negatively associated with county-level property crime arrest rates, but …
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Religion and differential justice.
… the effects of county-level affiliation rates on crime rates in the South. Applying spatial analyses to data from the 2010 Religious Census and Uniform Crime Reports, Black Protestant affiliation rates were found to be negatively associated with county-level property crime arrest rates, but …
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School, Disability Status, and Delinquency: An Examination of Delinquency Among Rural Adolescents
… Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia relate to drug use, property crime, violent crime, and victimization. Relevant policy implications and future research will be discussed. </p>
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Influence of Viewing Dramatic Television and Perceived Risk of Victimization on Crime-Specific Fear
… is to examine the predictability of the fear of property and personal crime in relation to viewing dramatic or violent television. The study was carried out using the viewpoint that the viewing of violence, which is symbolically communicated through the medium of television, does affect the fear …
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An Analysis of Location and Offender Characteristics for Motor Vehicle Theft in Texas from 2001 to 2005
Motor vehicle theft is the costliest property crime in the United States equaling billions of dollars in losses each year. Despite law enforcement success in decreasing the rate of motor vehicle theft in recent years, the actual number of thefts has increased. It is vital for law enforcement …
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A Critical Engagement with Piratical Opinion
A study of the intellectual property crime commonly known as ‘file sharing’ using the file sharing websites on which users display their activity and post comments. As a guide I will use a meta-theoretical framework first developed by Roger Sibeon and then expanded by Tim Owen to help focus the …
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An Examination of Juvenile Delinquency and Victimization Using an Integrated Model Approach.
… of the variation in delinquent behavior (i.e., property crime, violent crime and alcohol and illegal drug use). The analysis also indicates that the integrated model explains between 15% and 27% of the variation in victimization. This thesis concludes that theoretical integration is necessary in …
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